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A Contracting Member State may request an additional local division for each 100 patent
cases per calendar year that have been commenced in that Contracting Member State during
the three successive years prior to or subsequent to the date of entry into force of the UPCA,
up to a total of four. 20 Germany demonstrated sufficient numbers of patent cases and has four
local divisions located in Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Mannheim and Munich. As of 1 June 2023,
when the UPCA entered into force, the list of local and regional divisions was as follows: 21
– Austria – Vienna;
– Belgium – Brussels;
– Bulgaria – Central Division;
– Denmark – Copenhagen;
– Estonia – Nordic Baltic Regional Division;
– Finland – Helsinki;
– France – Paris;
– Germany – Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Mannheim and Munich;
– Italy – Milan;
– Latvia – Nordic Baltic Regional Division;
– Lithuania – Nordic Baltic Regional Division;
– Luxembourg – Central Division;
– Malta – Central Division;
– Netherlands – The Hague;
– Portugal – Lisbon;
– Slovenia – Ljubljana; and
– Sweden – Nordic Baltic Regional Division.
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There is therefore, as at 1 June 2023, one regional division: Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
have set up the Nordic-Baltic regional division with its designated seat in Stockholm,
with hearing places also in Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius. 22 Bulgaria, Luxembourg and Malta
have not established local divisions or participated in regional ones and have thereby
assigned competence for such Contracting Member States to the central division.
art.7(4) UPCA.
Further details on specific Contracting Member States are set out in the Table at the end of Chapter 1 (Introduction).
See the European Commission’s press statement, available at http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_STATEMENT-1446_en.htm [Accessed 13 April 2023] and copy of the signed agreement, available at
http://titania.saeima.lv/LIVS12/saeimalivs12.nsf/0/8de89d98e620c6fdc22580680049a600/$FILE/parakstitais_ligums_anglu_val
_latv.pdf [Accessed 13 April 2023].
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