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16 April 2020PatentsTilman Müller-Stoy

UPC: will the German decision force changes that are coming anyway?

There is hardly any other decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) that has been awaited as eagerly outside Germany—or even outside Europe—as the decision of the 2nd Senate of the FCC in case 2 BvR 739/17 on the complaint against the Act on the ratification of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA), published on 20 March 2020.

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