Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 July 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Unified Patent Court: Discussion

Mr. Aidan Sweeney:

We can come back with that information. This is part of our case. We want to build that case among the SME community too to educate it about the benefits of this system. We have engaged with organisations such as Enterprise Ireland about this. It is committed to the project. We have talked to a number of SMEs that sit on our corporate intellectual property, IP, group too. They are passionate about what this can do. The investors into these companies look for the patent portfolios as a verifiable way of doing that. Engagement is monitored centrally by the European Patent Office. This patent system has benefits for SMEs.