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A presentation about the unitary patent

The following video goes thoroughly through all issues raised by the regulation on the unitary patent, stressing how important it is to carefully drawing a good patent policy, pointing at drawbacks of the Commission's proposal for this regulation and proposing some required amendments in order for the unitary patent to quickly come to reality.

A presentation about the unitary patent

The following video goes thoroughly through all issues raised by the regulation on the unitary patent, stressing how important it is to carefully drawing a good patent policy, pointing at drawbacks of the Commission's proposal for this regulation and proposing some required amendments in order for the unitary patent to quickly come to reality.

A presentation about the unitary patent

The following video goes thoroughly through all issues raised by the regulation on the unitary patent, stressing how important it is to carefully drawing a good patent policy, pointing at drawbacks of the Commission's proposal for this regulation and proposing some required amendments in order for the unitary patent to quickly come to reality.

Justification for a unitary patent

The objective of the present enhanced cooperation is to create a unitary patent and its associated translation arrangements. Well. But how unitary would be this patent whereas in Europe, there is already the centralised Munich Patent Office that grants patent for the whole continent?

The enhanced cooperation

For this regulation on the unitary patent, ministers of Member States have decided to legislate, not among 27, but only among the 25 participating Member states. This is called an enhanced cooperation. This procedure is allowed by the EU Treaties in order to limit risks of blocking when a consensus cannot be reached between all Member States.