Entry into force of the Protocol for the Provisional Application of the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court

The unitary patent system looks set to finally be launched. This system will allow European patent holders to enforce their patents before a single, newly created international court, the Unified Patent Court (as opposed to the current need to resort, in most cases, to court proceedings in each of the Member States where the patent is being infringed).

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