Amanda Solloway (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Minister
for Science, Research and Innovation): I am tabling this statement
for the benefit of Honourable and Right Honourable Members to bring
to their attention the UK’s withdrawal from the Unified Patent
Court system. Today, by means of a Note Verbale, the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has withdrawn its
ratification of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court and the
Protocol on Privileges and Immunities of...Request free trial
(Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Minister for
Science, Research and Innovation): I am tabling this statement for
the benefit of Honourable and Right Honourable Members to bring to
their attention the UK’s withdrawal from the Unified Patent Court
system.
Today, by means of a Note Verbale, the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland has withdrawn its ratification of the
Agreement on a Unified Patent Court and the Protocol on Privileges
and Immunities of the Unified Patent Court (dated 23 April 2018) in
respect of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
and the Isle of Man, and its consent to be bound by the Protocol to
the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on provisional application
(dated on 6 July 2017) (collectively “the Agreements”).
In view of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union,
the United Kingdom no longer wishes to be a party to the Unified
Patent Court system. Participating in a court that applies EU law
and is bound by the CJEU would be inconsistent with the
Government’s aims of becoming an independent self-governing
nation.
The Agreements have not yet entered into force. However, in order
to ensure clarity regarding the United Kingdom’s status in respect
of the Agreements and to facilitate their orderly entry into force
for other States without the participation of the United Kingdom,
the United Kingdom has chosen to withdraw its ratification of the
Agreements at this time. The United Kingdom considers that its
withdrawals shall take effect immediately and that it will be for
the remaining participating states to decide the future of the
Unified Patent Court system.
