Preparing for the Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court: What to Consider Before Opting Out or Opting to Stay In

Before the new Unitary Patent Package comes into force, patent owners will have to take two key decisions: what strategy to adopt for the management of their portfolio to take account of the new Unitary patent; and secondly, whether to opt some or all of their existing European patents out of the jurisdiction of the new Unified Patent Court.