Territorial Coverage

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the Unitary Patent (UP) has currently been ratified in 18 EU countries (in blue): Austria (AT), Belgium (BE), Bulgaria (BG), Denmark (DK), Estonia (EE), Finland (FI), France (FR), Germany (DE), Italy (IT), Latvia (LV), Lithuania (LT), Luxembourg (LU), Malta (MT), the Netherlands (NL), Portugal (PT), Romania (RO), Slovenia (SI) and Sweden (SE). 

Six EU countries have signed but not yet ratified the UPCA agreement (in green): Cyprus (CY), Czech Republic (CZ), Greece (GR), Hungary (HU), Ireland (IR) and Slovakia (SV).

Poland (PL) has not signed the agreement and Spain (ES) and Croatia (HR) are not participating.