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It seems clear that there will soon be a Unitary Patent effective across most of the EU, and a Unifi ed Patent Court for the settlement of disputes about European patents generally. But, asks Jacqueline Needle, are businesses really going to be interested in using the unproven, infl exible and complex regime?