The Germany Constitutional court has decided that German approval of the legal framework behind the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is void since it was not approved by the Bundestag with the required two-thirds majority.

Read the entire press release here:

https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/2020/bvg20-020.html;jsessionid=35096FF86E1D7C6AE751925C8C8019DC.1_cid361

We will continue to follow the comments from the German government, including whether they will aim for the approval needed or if the UPC, in light of these news and Brexit, will be dead or on hold.

Read more here.