Commentaar op de Draft Rules of Procedure for the UPC

W. Pors, B. Vandermeulen, Bird & Bird submission on the Rules of Procedure for the Unified Patent Court, brief 30 september 2013.
Ingezonden door Wouter Pors, Bird & Bird gericht aan het Prepatory Committee van het Unified Patent Court: On behalf of Bird & Bird LLP we hereby submit our comments on the Draft Rules of Procedure for the Unified Patent Court as published on the website on 31 May 2013. This submission was prepared by the International UPC Steering Group of Bird & Bird, which comprises patent litigators and patent attorneysin the various countries in which we practise. We have also been involved in the preparation of the submissions of AIPPI and EPLAW and have taken these submissions into account. We have further also taken the epi submission into account. This submission represents our independent professional view of the Rules of Procedure and is made to support the further improvement of the envisaged system.

We have taken the UPC Agreement as a given starting point that currently cannot be changed any more, which does not mean that we support all choices made in that Agreement. However, in some instances we cannot avoid suggesting some small amendments to the Agreement, but only where we think such amendments do not touch on political issues.

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