What happened?
On 6 October 2022, the Administrative Committee of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) announced via the publishing of an implementation roadmap that the entry into force of the UPC Agreement was expected for 1 April 2023.
Indeed, Germany has finally1 scheduled the ratification of the UPC Agreement for the week of 19 December 2022. The UPC Agreement, which is already ratified by 16 Member States among which are Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands and France, provides that it will enter into force only after its ratification by Germany.
This announcement by the UPC Administrative Committee followed another milestone which occurred on 1 September 2022 with the entry into force of the UPC’s Rules of Procedure.
