UPC Organization

UPC

Luxembourg

5 judges
3 legally qualified judges & 2 technically qualified judges

PARIS Seat
(President’s Office)

MUNICH Section

MILAN Section

(A) Human necessities
SPCs + patents

(B) Performing operations, transporting

(D) Textiles, paper

(E) Fixed constructions

(F) Mechanical engineering, lighting, heating, weapons, blasting

(G) Physics

(H) Electricity

(A) Human necessities
SPCs + patents

(B) Performing operations, transporting

(D) Textiles, paper

(E) Fixed constructions

(G) Physics

(H) Electricity

(F) Mechanical engineering, lighting, heating, weapons, blasting

Expected

Expected: (A) patents, Paris → Milan; (C) SPCs, Munich → Paris.

3 judges
2 legally qualified judges & 1 technically qualified judge

3 legally qualified judges & 1 additional technically qualified judge

1 local judge + 2 judges from the Pool in divisions with less than 50 cases per year

2 local judges + 1 judge from the Pool in divisions with more than 50 cases per year

upon request by one of the parties

on the division’s own initiative

Except opt-out

During the transitional period

European patent with unitary effect (Unitary patent) (UP)

European patent (EP) - designating 1 or more Member States - in force on the date of entry into force of the UPC Agreement

SPC issued for a product protected by a UP or EP

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