EU’s Unified Court Creates New Patent Professional

Attorneys would be wise to begin getting additional training and experience on the ins and outs of the European Union’s Unified Patent Court, Wolters Kluwer suggests in a blog post. European patent attorneys will be qualified to conduct litigation at the UPC for one year under grandfather provisions, but neither that nor the future European Patent Litigation Certificate will likely be enough to be a successful litigator at the UPC, said Koen Bijvank, president of the European Patent Litigators Association, at the group’s third annual conference in Amsterdam. “Many speakers stressed the moment to start preparing for the UP system is now,” Wolters Kluwer writes.court