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Term/Abbreviation
Definition
SEP
Standard essential patent
Service Regulation
Regulation (EU) No 2020/1784 of 25 November 2020 on the
service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial
documents in civil or commercial matters (service of
documents) (recast)
SME
Small and medium-sized enterprise
SoC
Statement of claim
SoD
Statement of defence
SPC
Supplementary patent certificate granted under
Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 of 6 May 2009 concerning the
supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products,
or Regulation (EC) No 1610/96 of 23 July 1996 concerning the
creation of a supplementary protection certificate for plant
protection products
TBA
Technical Board of Appeal at the EPO
TFEU
Consolidated version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the
European Union (2012/326/01)
TEU
Consolidated version of The Treaty on European Union
(2012/326/01)
Translation Regulation
Council Regulation (EU) No 1260/2012 of 17 December 2012
implementing enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation
of unitary patent protection with regard to the applicable
translation arrangements
TRIPS Agreement
The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual
Property Rights
UPC
Unified Patent Court
UPCA
Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (2013/C 175/01)
UPCA Statute
Statute of the Unified Patent Court, as set out in Annex I to
the UPCA
Unitary patent
European patent granted under the provisions of the EPC
which benefits from unitary effect by virtue of the Unitary
Patent Regulation
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