{"id":38171,"date":"2019-02-09T10:49:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T10:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/article\/up-upc-update-austria-approaches-provisonal-application\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T09:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:20:33","slug":"up-upc-update-austria-approaches-provisonal-application","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/article\/up-upc-update-austria-approaches-provisonal-application\/","title":{"rendered":"UP\/UPC Update: Austria approaches provisonal application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>9 February 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On 29 January, Austria\u2019s government signed the Protocol to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on Provisional Application (PPA). Austria is expected to complete its PPA accession in a relatively near future through parliament\u2019s ratification (similar to what Bulgaria did in 2017\u20132018 albeit each acceding country acts under its own rules and conditions). A completed Austrian PPA accession means that \u2018critical mass\u2019 is at hand in each of the two steps of the system\u00b4s operationalisation: Germany gets executive powers, first in starting provisional application one day after its PPA ratification, then in setting the date for the system\u2019s entry into force on a given day 3\u20134 months after its ratification of the UPC Agreement. Germany\u00b4s ratifications are currently under the scrutiny of the Federal Constitutional Court, the decision of which we are awaiting.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the Unitary Patent System (UP\/UPC)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/expertise\/expert-areas\/intellectual-property-marketing-and-media-law\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>9 February 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On 29 January, Austria\u2019s government signed the Protocol to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on Provisional Application (PPA). Austria is expected to complete its PPA accession in a relatively near future through parliament\u2019s ratification (similar to what Bulgaria did in 2017\u20132018 albeit each acceding country acts under its own rules and conditions). A completed Austrian PPA accession means that \u2018critical mass\u2019 is at hand in each of the two steps of the system\u00b4s operationalisation: Germany gets executive powers, first in starting provisional application one day after its PPA ratification, then in setting the date for the system\u2019s entry into force on a given day 3\u20134 months after its ratification of the UPC Agreement. Germany\u00b4s ratifications are currently under the scrutiny of the Federal Constitutional Court, the decision of which we are awaiting.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the Unitary Patent System (UP\/UPC)\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/expert-areas\/intellectual-property-marketing-and-media-law\/unitary-patent-system-unified-patent\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34162,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":""},"article_category":[1035],"class_list":["post-38171","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-intellectual-property-marketing-and-media-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/38171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/articles"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setterwalls.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=38171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}