On 1 January 2025, a new and modernised Swedish Patent
Act entered into force, replacing the Patent Act from
1967.
The new Patent Act further aligns Swedish patent legislation
with the European Patent Convention (EPC), the Agreement on a
Unified Patent Court (UPC), and the Directive 2004/48/EC on the
enforcement of intellectual property rights, and includes several
beneficial changes for applicants and patentees.
In addition to linguistic modernisation and a more accessible
structure, including separate paragraph numbers for each chapter,
applicants are likely to appreciate the new possibility of having
more than one invention searched and examined if the patent
application is considered non-unitary.
