Home
Law & practice

Law & practice

A man sits at a desk with a notebook and legal texts (decorative image)

Legal texts

Boards of Appeals _boa_

Search the decisions database
Recent decisions
Enlarged Board of Appeal
Procedure
About the Boards of Appeal
Publications

Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court

Unitary Patent

Legal framework
Main features
Applying for Unitary Patents
More information

Unified Patent Court

About the Unified Patent Court

Convergence of practice

Substantive patent law harmonisation

Group B+
The Tegernsee process

Website updates

19.1.2022: Notice concerning the forthcoming introduction of the Unitary Patent and the possibility to file early requests for unitary effect
19.1.2022: Notice concerning the forthcoming introduction of the Unitary Patent and the possibility of requesting a delay in issuing the decision to grant a European patent in response to a communication under Rule 71(3) EPC

Updates archive