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Thursday, November 03, 2005

Top Judges Sign up to Patent Reform Campaign as Pressure grows for Single Court.

From

LegalWeek:

"[...] Europe's top intellectual property (IP) judges have dramatically thrown their weight behind a campaign to create a unified European patent court, Legal Week can reveal, following a top-level meeting of lawyers last month.

The 'judges resolution', which is being backed by the UK's most senior IP judges, Lord Hoffmann and Lord Justice Jacob, is to form the basis of a campaign to lobby European Union (EU) governments on the issue.

The proposed body, the European Patent Court, would function as a unified court of first instance and a single appeal body for all cross-border patent disputes. The proposals are drawn from the European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA), a framework originally agreed by lawyers and industry representatives in 1999. [...]"

Also the Financial Time

reports on that matter. For details on the European Patent Litigation Agreement see

here.

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