A Stone's Throw Away from a European Patent Court : The European Patent Litigation Agreement

The EPO Working Party on Litigation and its sub-group have in the past three and a half years elaborated a treaty text of an agreement for a European Patent Litigation System. The heart of this system includes a European Patent Court. The agreement on the cornerstones for a Community Patent Court, and on the other points in regard to the Community patent in the common political approach of March 3, 2003, questions the further necessity for a European Patent Court. The author shows why in any case a European Patent Court would be needed