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28 January 2021PatentsWouter Pors

UPC scenarios: optimists look to summer 2022

On December 18, 2020, the German Federal Council (Bundesrat) unanimously approved the ratification of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement (UPCA), which concluded the parliamentary ratification process for the second time.

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