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Fourteen countries have now ratified the UPC

By AWA | Posted on September 5, 2017

Despite the uncertain situation in the UK and Germany, other EU member states seem to continue to ratify the UPC agreement. The latest states to join those who have already ratified are Estonia and Lithuania, of which both deposited their instruments for ratification during August. The complete list can be found here. Before the new...

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UK inches towards UPC ratification

By Alicia Kim | Posted on January 16, 2017

There was a sigh of relief at the end of November when the UK announced that it would proceed with the ratification process to implement the UPC in spite of Brexit.  This renewed the hope that the UPC will come in to force in 2017 as planned.  Whilst this was good news, what did it...

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