A European patent only protects you in the European countries that you selected and paid for. Same for all other countries or regions.A patentee is typically unable to receive damages for products "manufactured, sold, and used abroad without ever entering the United States." There is no single international patent to protect an invention, so an inventor will need to seek protection in each country individually. No, there is no provision for filing a provisional patent application in Europe. The UPC is a Court common to currently eighteen EU Member States for which the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA) has entered into force on 1 June 2023. If you're domiciled in the United States, you're only required to have an attorney if you are a foreign-domiciled applicant. This article addresses the standards for pleading direct patent infringement in US District Courts based on recent decisions. Englehardt: For example, the German patent litigation system requires infringement and validity claims to be heard. ❑ Non optedout classical European patents if started there.