The U.K.'s June 23 vote to leave the European Union clouds a decades-old dream of creating one patent court for most of Europe. The goal of creating a Unified Patent Court covering most of the EU-some 40 years in the making-required the U.K. to be one of the ratifying countries. But the U.K.'s dramatic vote muddies that path, possibly exacerbating existing concerns about the proposed UPC system and enhancing the value of the old European patent system as a potentially safer option for those seeking intellectual property protection for their inventions.
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