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16 August 2016Copyright

CIPA has ‘strong preference’ for UK to be in UPC post-Brexit

The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) has a “strong preference” for the UK to participate in the unitary patent and concurrent Unified Patent Court (UPC), the organisation has revealed.

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