The Unified Patent Court (UPC), Europe's first supranational court, was launched in Paris last week. It has sole jurisdiction over patent litigation for companies and will therefore rule "on disputes between private parties" Every year, 190,000 patents are filed in Munich, before the European Patent Office, which has managed them since its creation in 1973.
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