The future Unified Patent Court (UPC) will be solely responsible for all disputes concerning unitary patents, EU patents in one or several member states and supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products. The UPC will be able to handle such cases as: infringement proceedings, dismissal actions, non-infringement declarations, actions to obtain temporary measures (preliminary injunctions, inspections to obtain evidence) and actions to obtain damages for prejudice caused by counterfeiting.
The UPC is a two-tier court system with a joint registry: a…