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Consilium – European Council website: ratification of UPC Agreement
The European Patent Office
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Espacenet: Patent Search Facility
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Court of Justice of The European Union
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Curia – Case law of the CJEU
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Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM)
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) is the European Union (EU) agency responsible for managing EU trade marks (EUTMs) and registered designs at EU level (RCDs).
World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is the global forum for intellectual property policy, services, information and cooperation.
WIPO Lex
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The IPKat Blog
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The SPC blog
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International patent offices
German Patent Office
French Patent Office
US Patent and Trademark Office
UK Intellectual Property Office
Links to National Court Decisions
This table contains links to various resources for a number of European Courts
| Country | Comments | Links |
| AT | Official database of Austrian case law, including Austrian Supreme Court and Higher Regional Court of Vienna on patent law (no focus on patent law, no first instance decisions) | https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Jus/ |
| BE | Selection of decisions (no focus on patent law) | https://ie-forum.be/ |
| DE | Selection of German patent decisions with English translationDecisions of the Federal Court of Justice (in German)Selection of lower instances decisions (in German) | https://www.german-patent-caselaw.com/https://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/list.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=en&Datum=Aktuell&Sort=12288https://d-prax.de/https://www.gesetze-bayern.de/Search/Hitlisthttps://www.justiz.nrw/BS/nrwe2/index.php |
| DK | DK 1st instance patent decisions (and TM, Designs and Competition)DK – patent some appeal court decisions (Eastern High Court) | https://domstol.fe1.tangora.com/page13990.aspxhttps://domstol.dk/oestrelandsret/aktuelt/ |
| ES | Case Law database of Spanish Judiciary (not limited to IP) | https://www.poderjudicial.es/search/indexAN.jsp |
| FI | Judgments of the Finnish Market Court (all IP matters not only patent cases) | https://www.markkinaoikeus.fi |
| FR | Selection by the French patent office of IP casesSupreme court and some lower court civil and commercial decisions (including French Supreme Court cases on patent law) | https://www.inpi.fr/en/base-jurisprudencehttps://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/search/juri?tab_selection=juri&searchField=ALL&query=&page=1&init=true |
| HU | Published judgments of Supreme Court (Curia), Appeal Courts, and some decisions of the Metropolitan Court (exclusive 1st instance court for IP infringement and validity) – only in Hungarian, party names cannot be searched as the decisions are anonimized | https://eakta.birosag.hu/anonimizalt-hatarozatok |
| HU | Decisions are anonimized, therefore one cannot search party names, patent numbers, product names, etc. | |
| IE | Irish decisions | https://www.bailii.org/recent-decisions-ie.html |
| NL | Dutch patent decisions | https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/https://www.ie-forum.nl/https://www.boek9.nl/ |
| PL | Selection of Polish 1st instance patent infringement decisions (preliminary measures and judgments)Selection of Polish patent validity administrative court judgments | https://bip.warszawa.so.gov.pl/orzeczeniahttps://orzeczenia.nsa.gov.pl/cbo/query |
| CH | Swiss patent decisions | https://www.bundespatentgericht.ch/en/case-law/case-law |
| SE | https://www.domstol.se/patent–och-marknadsoverdomstolen/patent–och-marknadsoverdomstolens-avgoranden/?f=CaseType_list:patentrattsligamalhttps://www.domstol.se/hogsta-domstolen/avgoranden/ | |
| UK | UK patent decisions | https://www.bailii.org/databases.html#ew |
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