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IP - non credere - A sceptical view on IP related statistics: A non-statistical digression
Posted by Meldrew at 12:34
Gérald Sédrati-Dinet 5 April 2013 at 13:13
As a complement, conflict between Art. 60 EPC and the unitary patent regulation have been identified by J. Koch: http://www.cep.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/Kurzanalysen/EU-Patent_Verstaerkte_Zusammenarbeit/PB_European_Patent.pdf
twr57 13 May 2013 at 21:42
I'm not convinced by Koch's analysis. For a start, he refers to Art 142, but this does not seem to be relevant. The 'unitary patent' system referred to in Art 142 supersedes national patents for the member countries who sign up. That is not what we are going to have. Art 149(a) allows other types of inter-country agreement, however. More seriously, it seems unnecessary and over-literal to construe Art 4(2) PatReg as contradicting Art 64 EPC. Rather it modifies it in particular circumstances (lex specialis).