Wijziging van de Rijksoctrooiwet 1995 in verband met de Overeenkomst betreffende een eengemaakt octrooigerecht en Verordening (EU) nr. 1257/2012

This Dutch bill amends the Netherlands' national Patent Act of 1995 (Rijksoctrooiwet 1995) to align it with the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court and EU Regulation No 1257/2012, which creates a unitary patent. Together these reforms allow inventors to obtain patent protection across participating EU countries through a single procedure and a single court system. The change mainly affects patent holders, inventors, businesses, and patent attorneys in the Netherlands, who would gain access to the unitary patent and the Unified Patent Court. The bill is based on metadata only; the full legislative text may contain further details.