Legislation and documents

• Agreement on a Unified Patent Court, 19 February 2013 (UPC Agreement or UPCA)
• Regulation 1257/2012 (Unitary Patent Regulation)
• Regulation 1260/2012(Unitary Patent Translation Regulation)
• Regulation 1215/2012 (as amended) (Recast Brussels 1 Regulation)

• Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPC Agreement or UPCA)
  • Minutes of signing the UPC Agreement and declaration of the contracting states concerning the preparations for the coming into operation of the UPC, 19 February 2013 
  • Progress on ratification
• Protocol to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on provisional application (PPA)
  • Progress on signature/ratification
• Protocol on Privileges and Immunities of the Unified Patent Court (PPI)
  • Progress on signature/ratification
• Rules of Procedure of the UPC (as adopted by decision of the Administrative Committee on 8 July 2022)

Representatives

• Proposal for a Code of Conduct for the UPC, 4th draft, 22 June 2016
• Rules on the European Patent Litigation Certificate and other appropriate qualifications,  22 February 2022

Court fees and recoverable costs

• Draft Decision of the UPC Administrative Committee on the scale of recoverable cost ceilings, 16 June 2016
• Rules on Court fees and recoverable costs (final, subject to legal scrubbing), 25 February 2016
• Draft Guidelines for the determination of Court fees and the ceiling of recoverable costs, 25 February 2016

Court divisions

• Set-up of local and regional divisions
• Agreement on the establishment of a Nordic-Baltic regional division, 4 March 2014
• Detailed split of subject-matter over central division sections
• UPC locations

Appointment of judges

• Appointment of the members and alternate members of the Advisory Committee
• NDA for judge interviews

Other

• Rules of Operation of the Mediation and Arbitration Centre
• Preparatory Committee’s Interpretative Note on the consequences of the application of Article 83 UPC Agreement, 29 January 2014. (This note rebuts a controversial view expressed by some commentators that the effect of the UPC is to harmonise all national patent law, such that regardless of the opt out provisions, national courts would have to apply the UPC, including potentially even its procedural provisions.)
• Financial Regulations of the UPC and Decision of the Administrative Committee governing the financial management of the UPC during the provisional application period
• Draft Decision concerning the budget for the provisional application period
• Staff Regulations of the UPC
• Regulations Governing the Conditions of Service of UPC’s Judges, Registrar and Deputy-Registrar
• Rules of Procedure of the Administrative Committee and Special Rules for the provisional application period
• Rules of Procedure of the Budget Committee and Special Rules for the provisional application period
• Rules of Procedure of the Advisory Committee and Special Rules for the provisional application period

• Regulation 1257/2012 (Unitary Patent Regulation)
• Regulation 1260/2012  (Unitary Patent Translation Regulation) 
• Rules relating to Unitary Patent Protection, 15 December 2015, as amended 23 March 2022
• Rules relating to Fees for Unitary Patent Protection, 15 December 2015
• Budgetary and Financial Rules, 15 December 2015
• Rules of Procedure of the EPO Select Committee, 25 June 2013, amendment 1 October 2021, amendment 14 October 2021

• “An enhanced European Patent System”, 2014 (endorsed by the Select Committee and Preparatory Committee)
• Unitary Patent & Unified Patent Court (by the EPO)
• The EPO's manual:  "The jurisdiction of European courts in patent disputes", 2018 (by the EPO’s European Patent Academy)

Draft Rules of Procedure of the UPC

• 17th draft of 31 October 2014 (showing changes from 16th draft) and explanatory notes to changes
• 16th draft of 31 January 2014 (showing changes from 15th draft) and digest of comments made in public consultation on 15th draft with explanatory notes on changes made in 16th draft

Draft Rules on the EPLC and other appropriate qualifications (and consultation)

• Revised Draft Rules on the European Patent Litigation Certificate (EPLC) and other appropriate qualifications, 23 September 2016  
  and Explanatory Memorandum  
• Draft Rules on the European Patent Litigation Certificate (EPLC) and other appropriate qualifications, 13 June 2014, Explanatory memorandum. Responses to public consultation (closed 25 July 2014): CCBE, CIPA, IP Federation, IPLA  

Rules on Court fees and recoverable costs – consultation

• Public consultation on the Rules on Court fees and recoverable costs, closed 31 July 2015
• Responses: Business Europe, IP Federation, IPLA, Intellectual Property Owners’ Association, The Law Society