Reply to post: Sorry, but this is just more Sour Grapes/Uninformed FUD

Time to re-file your patents and trademarks, Britain

Deltics

Sorry, but this is just more Sour Grapes/Uninformed FUD

From the European Patent Office information regarding Unitary Patents:

<quote>

The unitary patent will co-exist with national patents and with classical European patents. Patent proprietors will in future be able to choose between various combinations of classical European patents and unitary patents, for example:

a unitary patent for the 25 Member States of the European Union which participate in the unitary patent scheme;

together with

a classical European patent taking effect in one or more EPC Contracting States which do not participate in the scheme, such as Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Norway, Iceland, etc.

</quote>

In other words, how to deal with European states that are not actual members of the EU has already been taken into account w.r.t existing European states that are not actual members of the EU. So you will just need to add "United Kingdom" to that list of such states.

Sure, it may not be quite as straightforward as just adding to a list, but it sure as heck is not the END OF THE WORLD scenario being portrayed here. Only "as we know it".

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