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Moving forward: The German Federal Constitutional Court rejects two preliminary injunctions lodged against the agreement on a unified patent court

25 August 2021

The applications for preliminary injunction filed against the German legislation to ratify the agreement establishing a Unified Patent Court (the "UPC", and the "UPC Agreement") were dismissed by the German Federal Constitutional Court (the "Court" ) on 23 June 2021 as it found the constitutional complaints, subject of the main proceedings, to be inadmissible. According to the Court, the claimants had failed to adequately substantiate the possibility of an infringement of their constitutional rights.

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