Advocates for Ireland fully joining Europe’s new patent court will have to keep playing the waiting game. With the presidential election scheduled for October 24, lobbyists for Ireland joining the EU’s Unified Patent Court had been hopeful of the vote being pencilled in for the same date. Since summer, any hope of the vote taking place this year had become slimmer and slimmer and has now been cast aside with Department of Enterprise officials confirming to The Currency: “There are no plans to hold a referendum on the Unified Patent Court on the same day as the presidential election”. Meanwhile,…

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