IPKat: "German constitutional court upholds complaint against UPC Agreement and implementing act"

Léon Dijkman, IPKat: "This morning, the German constitutional court issued a 86-page decision in which it upholds the constitutional complaint against the German ratification of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court [decision here]. According to the Court, the German act by which it was to accede to the UPC Agreement, violates the German populace's democratic rights under Article 38 Basic Law, because it was not passed with the parliamentary majority required by Article 23 Basic Law. [...]"

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