\u201cOne person\u2019s happiness is another person\u2019s misfortune\u201d (i.e., \u201cle bonheur des uns fait le malheur des autres\u201d)\u2026 This French proverb could easily be applied to the subject I\u2019m dealing with today: conflicts between UPCA and national laws, which will undoubtedly be a joy for legal Counsels and a misfortune of the system\u2019s users, mostly because of the resulting legal uncertainty.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll confine myself here to the case of French law, in keeping with my role here as French referent of this blog, but it should be noted that this problem is not particular to France; we also find, for instance, numerous disparities between the UPCA and preexisting German law (one need only compare Section 10 of the Patentgesetzt <\/em>with Article 25 UPCA to see this).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cOne person\u2019s happiness is another person\u2019s misfortune\u201d (i.e., \u201cle bonheur des uns fait le malheur des autres\u201d)\u2026 This French proverb could easily be applied to the subject I\u2019m dealing with today: conflicts between UPCA and national laws, which will undoubtedly be a joy for legal Counsels and a misfortune of the system\u2019s users, mostly because […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brevets","category-jub"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n