Unified Patent Court: Poison pill for future of EU integration

The Unified Patent Court will fall largely out of EU control. The EU risks becoming a mere registration office of what the member states will have decided on their own, write four authors representing the CRIDES research centre.

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An exterior view of a building of biopharmaceutical company BionTech in Marburg, Germany, 12 November 2020. It is thanks to the German SME BioNTech that the giant pharmaceutical company Pfizer could recently announce the new vaccine against COVID-19. [Ronald Wittek/EPA/EFE]

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