Should I get a unitary patent?

The unitary patent (UP) and Unified Patent Court (UPC) could be live from as early as October 2022.

The UP will, for the first time, offer patent proprietors the option to have a single patent covering multiple EU member states (17 at the time of writing, likely to be more in the future). As an alternative, the current “classical” validation route in different states will continue.

Patent proprietors will need to answer the question: should we request a UP based on a granted European patent?

Some key features of the UP are: