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Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024
- Sponsor
- Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Introduced
- 15 Feb 2024
- Last updated
- 20 Feb 2025
What this bill does AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Amends the Irish Constitution to enable Ireland to ratify the Unified Patent Court Agreement, creating a single EU-wide patent court system.
- Allows Ireland to participate in unified patent litigation rather than handling cases through separate national courts.
- Constitutional change required because the Agreement involves transferring some judicial authority to an international court body.
Stage timeline What do these stages mean?
- First Stage 33rd Dáil15 Feb 2024
- Second Stage 33rd Dáil29 Feb 2024
- Committee Stage 33rd Dáil6 Mar 2024
- Report Stage 33rd Dáil6 Mar 2024
- Fifth Stage 33rd Dáil6 Mar 2024
- Second Stage 26th Seanad6 Mar 2024
- Committee Stage 27th Seanad19 Feb 2025
Debates
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