What does the Adoption of the Unitary Patent System Mean for U.S Inventors?
Despite numerous setbacks and delays - most recently a June 2017 decision by the German Constitutional Court that prevents Germany from adopting the Unitary Patent System, at least temporarily - optimists are confident that the new Unitary Patent System will come into effect in December 2017. Nearly all the members of the European Union have agreed to the Unitary Patent System. This system creates a Unitary Patent which is enforced in a new Unitary Patent Court. Consequently,