Patent Specialist Irina Annenkova to join Papula-Nevinpat’s Chemistry and Process Technology team
We warmly welcome Patent specialist Irina Annenkova to Papula-Nevinpat’s Chemistry and Process Technology team!
Germany has on 17 February 2023 ratified the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPC), confirming that the long-awaited unitary patent system will start on 1 June 2023.
The new system allows inventions to be protected by a single unitary patent in 17 EU countries. Currently, the countries participating in the unitary patent system include Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, and Sweden.
Before the UPC can start operating, there will be a ‘sunrise period’ beginning on 1 March 2023. During the sunrise period, European patent holders will have the possibility of filing an opt-out request for their existing European patents which have been validated in one or more of the UPC member states.
Opting out during the sunrise period is important for those patent holders wanting to avoid the centralized jurisdiction of the UPC, which will apply to all validations of a European patent in the UPC member states. If an opt-out request is filed by the patent holder, all litigation concerning the opted-out European patent will take place only in national courts of law according to the traditional European practice.
For more information, please contact our Folke Johansson, Director (Patents), European Patent Attorney.
We warmly welcome Patent specialist Irina Annenkova to Papula-Nevinpat’s Chemistry and Process Technology team!
We look at investigating patents from the technical perspective and introduce Papula-Nevinpat’s partnership with Huld for this kind of work.
In the latest Expert Guide - Intellectual Property 2023 Papula-Nevinpat's European Trademark Lawyer Riikka Palmos provides some of the answers regarding managing IP rights in Russia and Ukraine.
Germany has on 17 February 2023 ratified the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPC), confirming that the long-awaited unitary patent system will start on 1 June 2023.