General Part
9. 8Unitary Patent protection
After a European patent is granted, the patent proprietor can file a request for unitary effect and obtain a Unitary Patent, i.e. a European patent with unitary effect.
For further details, including the territorial scope of a Unitary Patent, see the Unitary Patent Guidelines (epo.org/en/legal/guidelines-up) and epo.org/applying/european/unitary.html.