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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10898
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) single market

Changes to “Brussels I” for Patent Court

Brussels, 29/07/2013 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 29 July, the European Commission proposed to modify the so-called “Brussels I” regulation, which governs the jurisdiction of courts and mutual recognition of judgments, to bring it into line with the future unified patent jurisdiction, which will take shape once the international agreement on its creation has been ratified by the state parties.

This change the regulation aims to “clarify how its jurisdictional rules will work in the...