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21 September 2018Patents

UK inclusion in UPC post-Brexit ‘not possible’, researchers claim

Two researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition have argued that the UK will not be able to remain in the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement after leaving the EU.

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