Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court: epi roadshow – Bern, Switzerland

Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office organizes a seminar dedicated to the upcoming UP and UPC system.

Link to the event description on epi website.

The seminars will provide knowledge of unitary patent protection and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) to allow epi members to work with the new system and to advise clients on strategic choices, for example on whether to request unitary effect for their European patents, or when and whether to opt their non-unitary European patents out of the UPC.

Content:

From Community Patent to Unitary Patent

The legal framework

The additional tasks entrusted to the EPO by the participating Member States

The basic concept of the unitary patent

Procedural issues and fees

Register for unitary patent protection and publications

Territorial field of application

The unitary patent as an object of property

Rights and limitations

UPC: court structure, jurisdiction, territorial scope

How and when will the UPC become operational? transitional phasing-in period (sunrise period), activities before entry into force

General overview over procedure; Rules of Procedure; provisional measures, patent infringement actions, revocation actions, provisional measures, evidence, languages

Relationship between parallel or subsequent EPO opposition proceedings and UPC-actions

UPC procedure against decisions of the EPO

Cost of proceedings

Roles of Patent Attorneys at UPC, representation and how to become qualified to represent at UPC, privilege,
UPC-register; opt-out and opt-in procedure