The Agreement on a Unified Patent Court was republished yesterday. Those of you priming yourselves to review the agrement for changes can stand down – it’s merely a republication in the Official Journal of the European Union and the only changes are formatting changes!

The final texts of the unitary patent package are therefore:

• Unitary patent regulation – 1257/2012
• Translation regulation – 1260/2012
• Agreement on a Unified Patent Court – 2013/C  175/01

The 15th Draft of the Rules of Procedure of the Unified Patent Court has recently been released but a copy is not currently available. The public consultation on the rules is expected shortly and we’ll update IPcopy as soon as we get a copy.

Mark Richardson  21 June 2013