UPC implementing the Patent Package, Second progress report
Unified Patent Court 'Implementing the Patent Package: Second progress report', 6 june 2014.
Since the last information provided to the Competitiveness Council at its meeting of December 2013, the Select Committee has:
- completed the second reading of the draft Rules relating to the Unitary Patent Protection;
- adopted the Rules for the compensation scheme for reimbursing translation costs for applicants having obtained a European patent with unitary effect;
- had several exchanges of views on the measures to be taken at national level to accompany the Unitary Patent Protection;
- adopted the timeline of its work for 2014.
During the next meetings to be held until the end of this year, the Select Committee will concentrate its work on the financial and budgetary aspects of the implementation of the Unitary Patent Protection in particular on projections of scenarios for the level of renewal fees and estimations of costs for the administration of the Unitary Patent Protection.
