Press Release: Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-146/13. Spain v Parliament and Council and C-147/13 Spain v Council

Advocate General Yves Bot: Spain’s actions against the European regulations implementing enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection must be dismissed.

The unitary protection conferred provides a genuine benefit in terms of uniformity and integration, whilst the choice of languages reduces translation costs considerably and safeguards better the principle of legal certainty.