The IP Federation is strongly supportive of the current version of Article 28 of the draft Agreement which will establish this Court. We believe that opening up representation to suitably certificated EPAs will not only be a progressive step in line with the general objective of improving the patent system in Europe but that specifically it will ensure wider choice and therefore better access to justice for all; especially for those high technology SMEs which will likely be the bedrock of the European Union’s future economic well-being.

Comments on the Draft Commission Regulation on R&D Agreements and the Guidelines on Horizontal Cooperation Agreements

Working paper from the Commission Services on the Draft Rules of Procedure for the Unified (European) Patent Litigation System (UPLS): Part 1 – Procedure before the Court of First Instance EU Council document 11813/09

Dissolution of the Registry Practice Working Group

TMPDF comments on the draft Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill

Response to DCA consultation of November 2005 on Rome II - the revised draft of EC Regulation on the law appreciable to non-contractual obligations (COM 2003/0427; council document 1623/04).

Response to DCA consultation of Febuary 2005 on Rome II - re: draft EC Regulation on the law appreciable to non-contractual obligations (COM 2003/0427).

Federation comment of March 2004 on draft convention on the law applicable to non contractual obligations "Rome II"