{"id":5094,"date":"2017-08-07T16:36:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T16:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sib.it\/?p=5094"},"modified":"2017-08-07T16:39:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T16:39:19","slug":"estonia-has-ratified-the-unified-patent-court-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sib.it\/en\/flash-news\/estonia-has-ratified-the-unified-patent-court-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia has ratified the Unified Patent Court Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Estonia has ratified the Unified Patent Court Agreement, with the formal act being deposited on 1 August 2017.<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5096\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sib.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Estonia.jpg\" alt=\"Estonia has ratified the Unified Patent Court Agreement\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sib.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Estonia.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sib.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Estonia-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">How many countries have ratified the Unified Patent Court Agreement so far?<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/documents-publications\/agreements-conventions\/agreement\/?aid=2013001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list of ratifications of the Unified Patent Court Agreement\u00a0<\/a> now includes 13 states: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden as well as Estonia.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">What difference does Estonia\u2019s ratification make?<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Not much. True, 13 is a meaningful number for the Unified Patent Court because the Unified Patent Court Agreement can only enter into force after ratification by a minimum of 13 signatory states.<\/p>\n<p>However Germany, France and the United Kingdom must mandatorily be among those 13 states. France has ratified the agreement, but the United Kingdom and Germany have not.<\/p>\n<p>An appeal against Germany\u2019s ratification law is pending before the Constitutional Court, and British ratification has been on hold since the Brexit referendum, because according to the Unified Patent Court Agreement only European Union member states can be part of the Unified Patent Court.<\/p>\n<p>Owing to the delays, the Unified Patent Court Preparatory Committee recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sib.it\/en\/flash-news\/unitary-patent-kick-off-delayed-until-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">postponed the Unified Patent Court\u2019s kick-off to the first half of 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Related content<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Flash news &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sib.it\/en\/flash-news\/unitary-patent-kick-off-delayed-until-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unitary patent kick-off delayed until 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flash news &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sib.it\/en\/flash-news\/the-unified-patent-court-will-not-begin-operations-in-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Unified Patent Court will not begin operations in 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flash news &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sib.it\/en\/flash-news\/italy-notifies-ratification-of-unified-patent-court-agreement-kick-off-by-end-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Italy notifies ratification of Unified Patent Court Agreement: kick-off by end 2017?<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estonia has ratified the Unified Patent Court Agreement, with the formal act being deposited on 1 August 2017. How many countries have ratified the Unified Patent Court Agreement so far? The list of ratifications of the Unified Patent Court Agreement\u00a0 now includes 13 states: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>L\u2019Estonia ha ratificato l\u2019Accordo sul Tribunale unificato dei brevetti<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"L\u2019Estonia ha ratificato l\u2019Accordo sul Tribunale unificato dei brevetti: cosa cambia rispetto alla data di entrata in vigore dell&#039;accordo?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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