Editing Unitary patent (section)

=== Unitary patent as an object of property ===
Article 7 of Regulation 1257/2012 provides that, as an object of property, a European patent with unitary effect will be treated "in its entirety and in all participating Member States as a national patent of the participating Member State in which that patent has unitary effect and in which the applicant had her/his residence or principal place of business or, by default, had a place of business on the date of filing the application for the European patent."<ref name=Ullrich>Ullrich, Hanns, The Property Aspects of the European Patent with Unitary Effect: A National Perspective for a European Prospect? (15 April 2013). Published in: I. Govaere, D. Hanf (eds.): Scrutinizing Internal and External Dimensions of European Law, Les dimensions internes et externs du droit européen à l’épreuve – Liber Amicorum Paul Demaret, Brussels 2013, 481; Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper No. 13-17 . Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2347921</ref> When the applicant had no domicile in a participating Member State, [[German law]] will apply.<ref name=Ullrich/> Ullrich has the criticized the system, which is similar to the [[Community Trademark]] and the [[Community Design]], as being "in conflict with both the purpose of the creation of unitary patent protection and with primary EU law."<ref name=Ullrich/>