Article about the EU Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court by John Richards is Now Available

In 1973 the European Patent Convention was signed in order to set up a common patent office to examine patent applications for any European country that wished to participate.  The convention went into effect in 1978 with the opening of the European Patent Office.  Two years after the European Patent Convention was signed, the Community Patent Convention was signed with the objective of creating a unitary patent for what was then the European Economic Community as well as a system in which such patents could be litigated.  However, the Community Patent Convention never came into effect because of concerns about the languages to be used and the way in which the litigation system would work.

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