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European patent law : the Unified Patent Court and the European Patent Convention / Edited by Duncan Matthews and Paul Torremans.
2023
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Title
European patent law : the Unified Patent Court and the European Patent Convention / Edited by Duncan Matthews and Paul Torremans.
Item Type
Book
Description
xxxii, 558 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN
9783110774016 Online
Summary
This book provides a comprehensive overview of European Patent Law. It presents a critical analysis of the European patent law system and the proposed changes to it. The book explores the strengths and weaknesses of the European Patent Convention, and the interaction between the national and the European level, as well as across borders.
Formatted Contents Note
Foreword
Preface
List of contributors
Introduction
Part 1: The existing system: the EPC
1. The role of EPO Boards of Appeal in shaping of patent law in Europe
2. The interaction between the UPC, national courts, and the EPO Boards of Appeal
3. Cross-border patent litigation under the EPC
4. Plausibility: a route to stronger and more robust patents?
5. Wrongful preliminary injunctions and EU procedural law
6. Proportionality and patent injunctions
Part 2: The European Patent with unitary effect and the Unified Patent Court
7. The novelty and inventive step requirement in Europe and under the UPP
8. Exceptions and limitations (27 UPCA)
9. Patent Arbitration under the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court
10. Supplementary Protection Certificates (Article 30)
11. Liability for infringement of EU law
12. Regulation 542/2014 on jurisdiction
13. Exclusive jurisdiction and competence
14. Constitutional aspects of the Unitary Patent Package (UPP) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) – question marks remain
15. Trusting the Unified Patent Court: the importance of the institutional design of the UPC and its judges
16. The EPO within the Unitary Patent System
17. The role of the Court of Justice of the European Union
18. Rules of procedure of the UPC, a judge’s perspective
19. The user in the UPC
20. Unified Patent Court and international law
21. The patent with unitary effect and competition law
22. A system fit for innovation? Part I: (Dis-)incentives for potential patentees in the UP legal framework
23. A system fit for innovation? Part II: (Dis-)advantages for follow-on inventors in the UP legal framework
24. Patent mediation
25. Litigation strategies and bifurcation
26. Patent litigation strategies in Germany: maneuvering the evolving landscape of bifurcation
Part 3: Co-existence and alternatives
27. The co-existence between EPC and patents with unitary effect
28 Institutional coexistence: the necessity of judicial dialogue and cooperation in the UPC
29 The role of the CJEU in European patent law from a procedural perspective
30 Gene patents in the EPC and the European patent with unitary effect
31 Decision-makers, institutional influences and the role of ethical issues in the patenting of biotechnological inventions in Europe: enter the unitary patent system
32. The UPC and the FRAND injunction
Index
Preface
List of contributors
Introduction
Part 1: The existing system: the EPC
1. The role of EPO Boards of Appeal in shaping of patent law in Europe
2. The interaction between the UPC, national courts, and the EPO Boards of Appeal
3. Cross-border patent litigation under the EPC
4. Plausibility: a route to stronger and more robust patents?
5. Wrongful preliminary injunctions and EU procedural law
6. Proportionality and patent injunctions
Part 2: The European Patent with unitary effect and the Unified Patent Court
7. The novelty and inventive step requirement in Europe and under the UPP
8. Exceptions and limitations (27 UPCA)
9. Patent Arbitration under the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court
10. Supplementary Protection Certificates (Article 30)
11. Liability for infringement of EU law
12. Regulation 542/2014 on jurisdiction
13. Exclusive jurisdiction and competence
14. Constitutional aspects of the Unitary Patent Package (UPP) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) – question marks remain
15. Trusting the Unified Patent Court: the importance of the institutional design of the UPC and its judges
16. The EPO within the Unitary Patent System
17. The role of the Court of Justice of the European Union
18. Rules of procedure of the UPC, a judge’s perspective
19. The user in the UPC
20. Unified Patent Court and international law
21. The patent with unitary effect and competition law
22. A system fit for innovation? Part I: (Dis-)incentives for potential patentees in the UP legal framework
23. A system fit for innovation? Part II: (Dis-)advantages for follow-on inventors in the UP legal framework
24. Patent mediation
25. Litigation strategies and bifurcation
26. Patent litigation strategies in Germany: maneuvering the evolving landscape of bifurcation
Part 3: Co-existence and alternatives
27. The co-existence between EPC and patents with unitary effect
28 Institutional coexistence: the necessity of judicial dialogue and cooperation in the UPC
29 The role of the CJEU in European patent law from a procedural perspective
30 Gene patents in the EPC and the European patent with unitary effect
31 Decision-makers, institutional influences and the role of ethical issues in the patenting of biotechnological inventions in Europe: enter the unitary patent system
32. The UPC and the FRAND injunction
Index
Series
Series
De Gruyter Reference.
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Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023.
Language
English
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