London calling: the benefits of the UPC’s new home

The announcement on August 11 of the location of the London central division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) should be welcomed by the life sciences sector. Not only is the new court at Aldgate Tower in the middle of legal London and a stone’s throw from MedCity (the organisation managing a life sciences cluster including London, Cambridge and Oxford), it’s also easily accessible to the hotbed of innovators and manufacturers based in London and the south-east and to international court users alike.