Passaggi chiave della sentenza:

1. The Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPC) has been ratified by means of the Act of Approval. This was passed using the ordinary legislative procedure (majority of 50%+1)

2. The UPC Agreement conferred judicial functions to a supranational court and set out that this court would have had exclusive competence to decide on certain legal disputes.

3. An act that ratifies an international treaty that is closely tied to the EU´s integration agenda must comply with Article 23(1) of the Constitution, which regulates the transfer of sovereign powers to the EU

4. The UPC would have transferred sovereign powers and affected citizens fundamental rights under the Constitution, therefore its ratification would have required a 2/3 majority in the Parliament.

La decisione 2 BvR 739/17 e' disponibile all'indirizzo https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Entscheidungen/DE/2020/02/rs20200213_2bvr073917.html;jsessionid=CEC30614A1C6082FB896EFD8C0944E8B.1_cid383

On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 20:38, J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin@polito.it> wrote:

EU Software Patent Court stopped by Constitutional Court, patent industry will try again

By Benjamin HENRION

Brussels, 23 March 2020 — The third attempt to validate software patents in Europe via a central patent court (UPC) has been stopped by the German Constitutional Court. The Unified Patent Court (UPC) would have given the keys of the kingdoms to the patent industry, and the last word over software patentability. FFII predict that the patent industry will continue to push for an UPC v2.0.

http://blog.ffii.org/eu-software-patent-court-stopped-by-constitutional-court-patent-industry-will-try-again/

(Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Associate Professor of Intellectual Property and Privacy Law @stirlaw

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‘Can Permissionless Blockchains be Regulated and Resolve Some of the Problems of Copyright Law?’ (2019)

‘Artificial Intelligence and Databases in the Age of Big Machine Data’ (2019)

‘Against the dehumanisation of decision-making’ (2018)

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