THE UNITARY PATENT OBSERVES ITS FIRST ANNIVERSARY IN JUNE 2024
The unitary patent observed its milestone first anniversary on 1 June 2024. It is worth noting that the unitary patent system currently serves as the modality for obtaining a single means of uniform protection across all of the 17 countries of the European Union that have ratified the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (‘UPC Agreement’), based on the European patent granted by the European Patent Office (EPO).
The unitary patent has been a great success over the first year of its entry into force. In fact, around one in four European patents granted by the European Patent Office (EPO) has been converted into a unitary patent. Since 1 June 2023 “the EPO has received 28,450 requests for unitary effect and has registered nearly 27,700 unitary patents” (Source EPO).
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