Unitary Patent: Key points for requesting unitary effect
The unitary patent system will enter into force in the coming months. We reveal how it works, how to request the unitary effect and when this new unitary patent is more convenient than the conventional European patent validations.
Is really the unitary patent going to be more advantageous?
The Unitary Patent has a number of advantages, especially in terms of maintenance costs, but it also has a number of disadvantages which may not be so obvious at first sight, but which can be decisive from the point of view of strategic patent portfolio management.
The unitary patent and the unified patent court almost ready to go
European governments are not that excited about having a non-EU member state be part of the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court system.
