The Unified Patent Court is coming. As well as a forum for centralized enforcement of European patents, the UPC will provide a new opportunity for challengers to invalidate a European patent centrally in a single action. In this article Finnegan attorneys  Leythem A. Wall and  Hazel Ford review how UPC revocations will operate, similarities with the hugely successful inter partes reviews, and their potential popularity.

This article was previously published by Law 360.

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