Brussels, 08/03/2011 (Agence Europe) - The Court of Justice, meeting in plenary session on 8 March, has concluded that the draft agreement on the creation of a European and Community Patent Court (PC) as part of the Unified Patent Litigation System (UPLS, see EUROPE 10330) is not compatible with the EU Treaty or the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU.
It takes the view that, by conferring on such an international court (it is outside the institutional and judicial framework of the EU)...