When two people quarrel, someone else has the last laugh. It remains to be seen whether this saying proves true in the case of the transposition of the EU Directive on representative actions (EU 2020/1828) ("the Directive")...more
After decades of drafting and negotiating, the Unified Patent Court ("UPC") is finally set to go ahead. The year 2022 has been dynamic for this new European court: The regulations on the unitary patent entered into force...more
It took longer than expected, although not primarily because of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than two years after the EU Commission submitted its first proposal, the Directive on representative actions was adopted by the...more