Posts Tagged: "Klaus Grabinski"

EU Unified Patent Court Delays Opening by Two Months

The European Union Unified Patent Court (UPC) announced this week that the court’s Sunrise Period will be delayed by two months. The Sunrise Period has a new planned opening date of March 1, 2023, with the entry into force of the UPC Agreement (UPCA) pushed to June 1, 2023. In an official announcement, Klaus Grabinski, President of the UPC Court of Appeal, and Johannes Karcher, Acting Chairman of the Administrative Committee, said, “the additional time is intended to allow future users to prepare themselves for the strong authentication which will be required to access the Case Management System (CMS) and to sign documents.”

Alec Pronk

December 7, 2022

Intellectual Property Policy: Four Observations, Five Questions, and a Warning

In November, the UIC John Marshall Law School held their 64th Annual Intellectual Property Conference. The program consisted of five plenary sessions and nine breakout sessions featuring candid discussions and networking sessions with judges, senior government officials, and leaders of supranational IP offices, multinational corporations, law firms, academia, and nonprofit organizations. This article features a group of speakers and attendees as they share what they felt was a key message they took from the conference this year.

Renee C. Quinn

December 3, 2020