The likely role of the UPC in pharma patent litigation

For good or ill for industry in Europe, it now seems likely that the new Unified Patent Court (UPC) will open for business in the next few years and will start to transform European patent litigation. Indeed, the European Commission is talking up the prospect of it opening in 2014, although most think it will be 2015 at the earliest, given all the preparations that have to be made to establish the new court.