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The following international courses are set up to comply with the requirements of Rule 3 of the Rules on the EPLC, see here.
Rule 12 of the Rules on the EPLC contains a list of courses which provide an appropriate qualification for obtaining an EPLC in the transitional period, i.e. during a period of one year from the entry into force of the UPCA, see here.
Today EPLIT has sent a letter to Ministers and others involved in the Competitiveness Council. A meeting of this Council will take place early next week. With this letter, EPLIT urges: the governments of those Signatory States to the UPCA that have not ratified the Protocol on Provisional Application to do so as soon as possible in order to ensure a speedy entry into operation of the UPC and the...
Please find here the EPLIT position paper on the User Consultation on the revision of the Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO that has been submitted on 30 April 2018.
Together with organizations such as EPLAW, GRUR and DAV (Deutscher AnwaltsVerein), EPLIT was invited to provide comments to the complaint filed with the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) concerning the Unified Patent Court Agreement. EPLIT has worked with Dr Bracher, a lawyer specialized in German constitutional law of the firm Redeker Sellner Dahs, to prepare a submission...
The UK has deposited the document required to apply the Protocol to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on provisional application (PPA) with the depository for the UPC Agreement.
This protocol will allow some parts of the UPC Agreement to be applied provisionally.
Further information on those Signatory States who have already agreed to be bound by the PPA can be found here.
On 7 June 2017 it was announced on the website of the Unified Patent Court that the previously announced target date for the entry into operation of the UPC envisaged for December 2017 cannot be maintained. The timetable for the start of the period of provisional application and for the entry into force of the UPC Agreement is relying on the timely finalization of national procedures concerning...
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