Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 05/05/2015

Subject: The Court dismissed Spain’s action against the regulation 1257/2012 implementing enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection, affirming that the regulation is in no way intended to delimit, even partially, the conditions for granting European patents, which are exclusively governed by the European Patent Convention. Moreover, the Court pointed out that unitary patent protection is apt to prevent divergences in terms of patent protection in the participating Member States and, accordingly, provides uniform protection of intellectual property rights in the territory of those States

Parties: Spagna c. Parlamento europeo e Consiglio

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 17 Intellectual property

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