Is the door closing on the Unified Patent?

A cloud continues to loom over the implementation of the Unified Patent Convention, a system permitting a single patent covering numerous European countries, writes barrister Mark Engelman, head of intellectual property at UK-based law firm, Hardwicke, in an Expert View piece for The Pharma Letter.

A cloud not too dissimilar to that which hung over Theresa May’s seemingly unilateral decision to notify the European Union (EU) of the UK’s departure from the EU.

On that occasion, Gina Miller was seeking to stop the Brexit process starting without gaining approval from parliament, while on this occasion a German patent attorney, Ingve Björn Stjerna, is trying to prevent Germany becoming a member of the Unified Patents Convention (UPC).