15 June 2020PatentsSarah Morgan

Draft UPC ratification bill presented in Germany

The German government has submitted new draft legislation to ratify the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement, three months after the country’s Federal Constitutional Court annulled the ratification.

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