The start date for the Unified Patent Court remains 1 June 2023. This has been confirmed to Kluwer IP Law by Johannes Karcher, acting chairman of the Administrative Committee.
The decision was made by the UPC member states last week at a meeting of the Administrative Committee in Luxembourg. Due to problems with accessing the UPC’s CMS, based on a strong authentication scheme, the opening of the court had earlier been postponed for two months. But apparently there is confidence now that this issue has been solved. Last Friday, the UPC published a user guide on how to create a new account to access the CMS using the strong authentication. Read more