Our Patent Map is an online interactive tool providing guidance when planning your litigation strategy across Europe and in the Unified Patent Court (UPC). It allows you to select European countries and the UPC and instantly compare and contrast the key questions about the law and practice for patent litigation.
You can compare by country:
- Typical fees, litigation timetable, trial length and specialist courts.
- Evidence gathering methods, including disclosure and seizure.
- Use of expert evidence and cross-examination.
- Remedies, including damages and the details of preliminary injunction procedure.
- Fundamental features of infringement and validity law.
Key features include:
- Data for eleven European countries, plus the UPC.
- Easily navigable sections on first instance procedure, appeal, claim construction, validity, interim measures and other procedural features.
- Country comparisons: easily compare particular points of law between several countries at once.
The Unified Patent Court (UPC)
The UPC and Unitary Patent will introduce the most radical changes to patent litigation in Europe in 40 years.
Read our guide to the UPC
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