Reforms / Proposals

European Commission Proposal for a ‘Regulation on harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data (Data Act)’ – 23 February 2022

Mary Zhao, Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform – Reconsidering the Multilateral Investment Court in the Context of Disputes Involving Intellectual Property Law, 44 Colum.J.L.&Arts. 2021, 545 ff.

Consultation on EPC and PCT-EPO Guidelines – IP Federation submission on the Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office – March 2021 edition: Part F, Chapter IV – Claims (Art. 84 and formal requirements)

IP Federation position statement on the Unified Patent Court – 23 December 2020

Intellectual Property Action Plan – European Commission – IP Federation

Big Changes in International IP Laws -2018

James T. Gathii, Cynthia M. Ho, Regime Shifting of IP Law Making and Enforcement from the WTO to the International Investment Regime, Minn. J.L. Scl & Tech., 2017, 427 ff.

Substantive Patent Law Harmonisation – IP Federation – Document No: PUB 20P/20 – 01 February 2021

New EU proposal for a legal text on Intellectual Property Rights in the Trade Part of the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement

To Serve and Protect: the Challenge for Intellectual Property LawA Paper given at an International Law Discussion Group meeting held atChatham House on 23 April 2009

David Vaver, Reforming Intellectual Property Law: An Obvious and Not-soobvious Agenda, Intellectual Property Quarterly. Volume 1 (2009), 143 ff.

Peter Drahos, Global Law Reform and Rent-Seeking: The Case of Intellectual Property, 2 7 (1996) Australian Journal of Corporate Law, 1 ff.

Legislative Instruments

Regulations under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (as in force from July 1, 2022)

Unified Patent Court – Official documents 2nd meeting of the Administrative Committee, 8 July 2022

Unified Patent Court – Official documents Inaugural meetings, 22, 23 and 24 February 2022

UK Withdrawal from the UPCA – 20 July 2020

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2018/582
of 12 April 2018 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1352/2013 establishing the forms provided for in Regulation (EU) No 608/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning customs
enforcement of intellectual property rights

WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) – (as amended on 23 January 2017)

Agreement on a Unified Patent Court – 19 February 2013

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 1352/2013
of 4 December 2013 establishing the forms provided for in Regulation (EU) No 608/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning customs enforcement of intellectual property rights

REGULATION (EU) No 608/2013 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 12 June 2013 concerning customs enforcement of intellectual property rights and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1383/2003

Regulation (EU) No 386/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 April 2012 on entrusting the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) with tasks related to the enforcement of intellectual property rights, including the assembling of public and private-sector representatives as a European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights Text with EEA relevance 

DIRECTIVE 2004/48/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights
(Text with EEA relevance)

Protocol on Jurisdiction and the Recognition of Decisions in respect of the Right to the Grant of a European Patent (Protocol on Recognition) – Convention on the Grant of European Patents (European Patent Convention) of 5 October 1973 as revised by the Act revising Article 63 EPC of 17 December 1991 and the Act revising the EPC of 29 November 2000

Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Done at Washington on June 19, 1970, amended on September 28, 1979, modified on February 3, 1984, and on October 3, 2001

Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of March 20, 1883, as revised at Brussels on December 14, 1900, at Washington on June 2, 1911, at The Hague on November 6, 1925, at London on June 2, 1934, at Lisbon on October 31, 1958, and at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, and as amended on September 28, 1979