Yes
Yes
Not yet. On March 30 2017 the Parliament of Latvia adopted the Law on the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court. The law will come in force on January 1 2018.
Regional. Latvia will be part of the Nordic-Baltic regional division of the UPC with Estonia, Sweden and Lithuania (as established on 4 March 2014, read more on this on the related link below).
Schleegatan 7, 112 28 Stockholm, Sweden.
Two regional judges and one judge from the pool.
English
On February 16 2017 the Parliament in the first reading supported the associated draft Law on Agreement for the establishment of the Nordic-Baltic Regional Department of the Unified Patent Court.
The explanatory memorandum accompanying the bill on ratification of the Agreement on a Nordic-Baltic regional division states that cases allocated to Latvia (under the Declaration to the Agreement) may be heard in existing court facilities, although it does not clarify which facilities would be used. A possible candidate would be the Riga City Vidzeme District Court, which is currently deals exclusively with proceedings involving patent disputes in Latvia.
EUROPEAN COMMISSION STATEMENT ON UPC AGREEMENT
PAR VIENOTĀS PATENTU TIESAS IZVEIDES NOLĪGUMU
SĀKS DARBOTIES VIENOTĀ SPĒKA EIROPAS PATENTA SISTĒMA
*Information for this country provided by Andris Tauriņš of Sorainen, Riga.