{"id":721,"date":"2023-02-10T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/?p=721"},"modified":"2023-03-30T11:10:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T09:10:17","slug":"unified-patent-court-upc-entry-into-force-on-june-1-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/unified-patent-court-upc-entry-into-force-on-june-1-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"UNIFIED PATENT COURT (UPC) &#8211; ENTRY INTO FORCE ON JUNE 1, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Patent with unitary effect and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) were announced to be operational in 2023 &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>(See our news &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/a-european-unitary-patent-and-a-unified-patent-court-in-2023-source-epo\/\">a-european-unitary-patent<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Germany having just ratified the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPC), the latter will enter into force on June 1, 2023 simultaneously with the launch of the Unitary Patent.<\/p>\n<p>From this date, economic actors will be able to obtain a unitary title with effect in the Member States of the European Union that have ratified the said Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>However, a preliminary period of 3 months (Sunrise period) has started as from March 1, 2023, during which it will be possible to register an &#8220;opt out&#8221;, i.e. a request for derogation from the jurisdiction of the Unified Patent Court.<\/p>\n<p>Our patent attorneys remain at your disposal to refine your &#8220;innovation&#8221; strategy with regard to this new European unitary title.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For more information\u00a0:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epo.org\/news-events\/news\/2023\/20230217.html\">https:\/\/www.epo.org\/news-events\/news\/2023\/20230217.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Patent with unitary effect and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) were announced to be operational in 2023 &#8211; (See our news &#8211; a-european-unitary-patent). Germany having just ratified the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPC), the latter will enter into force on June 1, 2023 simultaneously with the launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}