Latent Patent

1/18/10,

Brussels partner Benoît Strowel wrote the article “Latent Patent,” which appeared in The Lawyer magazine.

“A viable Europe-wide patent system has caused legislators not a little consternation over the years. Benoît Strowel examines the history behind the concept.”

“The road towards the Unified Patent Litigation System (UPLS) is still full of pitfalls and the [European] Commission is well aware of this. It sees the UPLS being in place at the earliest in 2018, after which there will still be a transitional period of five years, during which proceedings for infringement or for revocation of a European patent may still be initiated before the national courts.”