Westminster Legal Policy Forum: Lawyers and Industry Professionals Talk UPC and Brexit

2017/02/16

Intellectual property lawyers and industry professionals have spoken about the future of the unitary patent, Unified Patent Court (UPC) and their IP impact post-Brexit.
Luke McDonagh, lecturer at City, University of London’s school of law, spoke at the Westminster Legal Policy Forum Keynote Seminar: The future for the UK’s Patent Framework, on February 2. He talked about the “current state of play” of patent law in the UK and “where we may be going post-Brexit”.
McDonagh discussed the pros and cons of the UPC, with the advantages including IP owners being able to revoke their patent centrally and the court’s reduced litigation and enforcement costs.

Source: SIPO