(7) All actions relating to certain aspects of the Comm
unity Patent should come under the jurisdiction, in the first instance, of t
he Community Patent courts (CPC) of Member States and, in the second instance, of the European Chamber for Intellectual Property (ECIP), created under Articles 225a and 229a EC, established by the Nice Treaty (7a)
The use of existing national courts with experience in patent cases as first instance cour
...[+++]ts (CPC) for Community Patent litigation follows, for the first instance, the example of Regulation (EC) No 40/94.