UPC - Comprehensive Online Seminar
Getting Ready for the New European Patent System - Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court
Overview and status
• Provisional application: the way into the shimmer
• Brexit: filling the gaps
• Decision of constitutional court: enough is enough
The Unitary Patent
• Structure/nature
• Costs/Savings
The UPC
• Structure: local vs. central
• Jurisdiction: UPs and EPs
• Procedure: speed matters
• Remedies: tabula rasa
• UPC revocation vs. EPO opposition
Opting out?
• Procedure
• Criteria/pros and cons
• Best practice
Case examples: Product/Process/Use Claims
Speakers: Dr. Thorsten Bausch - Dr. Esther Pfaff - Dr. Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine - C. Thomas Becher - Dr. Niels Hölder
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