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Unitary Patent Package – The Ratification Game

EU shirt2We previously reported that both France and Malta had ratified the unified patent court agreement. Despite this we had held off updating the “Ratification” Game post until the European Commission website showed that further instruments of ratification had actually been deposited in Brussels.

So, who would grab second place after Austria? Malta or France or maybe an outsider?

 

Well, we can now reveal that (more…)

 

And then there were three? President Hollande signs off on ratification of UPC Agreement

EU flagFollowing the recent adoption of the Agreement of the Unified Patent Court by the French National Assembly comes news that the French President, François Hollande, has now promulgated the law by signing off on the text in Paris on 24th February 2014.

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Unitary patent package – Ratification – Allons-y!

Ratification game 5 March 2013In an earlier post we noted that the French government seemed to be gearing up to be the first EU member state to ratify the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court. Now we’ve been sent (thank you @gibus) a further document that again restates France’s intention to be the first country to ratify the UPC Agreement. Does this mean that IPcopy is finally going to be able to get a player on the pitch in our over-extended and stretched “Ratification as a football match” analogy?

If anyone has further knowledge of the planned ratification timetable in France then please feel free to chime in below.

Mark Richardson 21 June 2013