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Patents Working Group


This Working Group follows developments related to the setting up of a Unified Patents Court (UPC) including Representation before the UPC, development of the draft Rules of Procedure, the European Patent Litigation Certificate and a range of other issues.

Members

CORNU

      Emmanuel

      Belgium

KRAG NIELSEN

      Jakob

      Denmark

FABIANI

      Marie-Hélène

      France

KRUGER

      Christina

      France

LARERE

      Emmanuel

      France

OSTERRIETH

      Christian

      Germany

MILLER KC

      Richard

      United Kingdom

Documents

CCBE comments on the draft code of conduct for the UPC (23/06/2016)

    

CCBE preliminary observations on the draft Code of Conduct for the Unified Patent Court (04/05/2016)

    

CCBE position on Independence of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office (15/05/2015)

    

CCBE response to the consultation paper on the European Patent Litigation Certificate Proposals (21/07/2014)

      

15th draft of the rules of procedure of the unified patent court dated 31 may 2013 Comments from the CCBE (18/10/2013)

    

The European Union Patent Jurisdiction (12/12/2011)

      

CCBE position paper concerning the proposal for a European and Community Patents Court (16/10/2009)

      

Proposal for a European and Community Patents Court CCBE Position regarding Article 28 Representation (19/02/2009)

      

CCBE position paper on the European Union Patent Jurisdiction (05/09/2008)