{"id":8519,"date":"2017-12-13T17:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T17:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hgf.com\/?p=8519"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:30:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:30:56","slug":"upc-groundhog-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hgf.com\/de\/knowledge-hub\/articles\/upc-groundhog-day\/","title":{"rendered":"UPC Groundhog Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p__large\">In January 2017, we posted the news: \u00a0\u201cThe UPC to be operational by December 2017\u201d. It\u2019s now December 2017, and for reasons we couldn\u2019t have foreseen in January, it feels the UPC is no nearer to being operational than it was back then.<\/p>\n<p>In late November 2017, the Council of the EU produced a document summarising the situation in participating Member States regarding ratification of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA) and signature, ratification or declaration to be bound by the protocol on provisional application (PPA).\u00a0 It can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/data.consilium.europa.eu\/doc\/document\/ST-14343-2017-INIT\/en\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Whilst a lot of progress has been made during 2017, the document acknowledges that \u201cDE and UK must deposit their instrument of ratification of the UPCA before it can enter into force (Article 89 UPCA)\u201d. Since the document was published, the UK has taken procedural steps in order to be able to ratify \u2013 both the Scottish and Westminster Parliaments have agreed legislation which means steps towards ratification can continue. However, due to a case currently pending in the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) concerning the law passed by the German Parliament on the implementation of the UPCA, German ratification is on hold until this is resolved.<\/p>\n<p>Many had thought the UPC would be ready to open its doors by December 2017, but that obviously isn\u2019t the case. Although a start date during 2018 looks possible, but with complications around the UK formally leaving the EU in early 2019, still nothing is certain. And post that the UPC \u201ccould be operational by December 2018\u201d just seems too much like Groundhog Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2017, we posted the news: \u00a0\u201cThe UPC to be operational by December 2017\u201d. 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