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This Practice Note introduces the unitary patent (UP) and Unified Patent Court (UPC) system and sets out the structure, jurisdiction and competence of the UPC. It explains the transitional arrangements for opting patents out of the system during the sunrise period, providing practical tips on when and how patents can be opted out. It also discusses First Instance and Court of Appeal procedure, exploring and explaining the Rules of Procedure of the UPC.

This Practice Note discusses the historical background to the EU unitary patent (UP) and Unified Patent Court (UPC), as well as some details about how both the patent and the court would work.

This Practice Note explains the manner in which intellectual property and certain other rights, as well as data protection obligations, apply in the context of web crawling, indexing, spidering, caching and scraping on the web, with specific regard to the perspective of a website operator. It explains each of the key terms of crawling, indexing, caching, and scraping. It examines legal issues relating to copyright infringement, database right infringement, website terms of use, compliance with the Robot Exclusion Protocol and instructions in metatags, the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and data protection issues.