Hacia un tribunal unificado y un efecto unitario para las patentes europeas en casi todos los Estados miembros de la Unión Europea. Consecuencias de la autoexclusión de España

Following more than fifty-five years of negotiations, the erroneously called "unitary patent package" has seen the light at the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013. Representing a major breakthrough in a key area for the development of the internal market, the results however have been d...

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Main Author: Desantes Real, Manuel
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Asociación Española de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales 2013
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Online Access:https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=4422355
Source:Revista española de derecho internacional, ISSN 0034-9380, Vol. 65, Nº 2, 2013, pags. 51-70
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Summary: Following more than fifty-five years of negotiations, the erroneously called "unitary patent package" has seen the light at the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013. Representing a major breakthrough in a key area for the development of the internal market, the results however have been disappointing. The lack of unanimous agreement on the language regime has led to an enhanced cooperation procedure, the annulment of which has been pressed for by Spain and Italy before the Court of Justice: the outcome is that instead of creating a unitary patent as an autonomous EU title, the proposal has been made to attribute unitary effect to European patents in the States participating in enhanced cooperation if the holder of the patent so wishes, effects not governed by EU law but rather by the law of one of the participating States. The willingness of member states to exclude the Court of Justice has led to an international agreement to create a Unified Patent Court which is both an international tribunal and a court pertaining to the jurisdiction of each member state. Neither Spain nor Poland has signed the agreement.