Z:gnu-www-ja-europes-unitary-patent--c11c0d-The European Court of Justice/en

The European Court of Justice ruled in March that a unitary patent system would have to be subject to its jurisdiction, but it isn't clear whether its jurisdiction would include substantive policy decisions such as &ldquo;can software ideas be patented?&rdquo; That's because it's not clear how the European Patent Convention relates to the ECJ.