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2018 04. 27.
EUROPEAN LAW
On April 26, 2018 the United Kingdom has deposited its instruments of ratification with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union and, thus, ratified the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (Official Journal of the European Union, C 175, 20 June 2013 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=OJ:C:2013:175:TOC), commonly referred to as the “UPC Agreement”. Accordingly, the United Kingdom is the sixteenth member state to have ratified the UPC Agreement. The ratification of Germany is the only ratification left before the new Unified Patent Court system will come into force. At present there is a complaint against the legislation enabling Germany to ratify the agreement pending at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (Bundesverfassungsgericht, BVerfG). A decision regarding the admissibility of the complaint is expected to be made by middle of this year.
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