2 BvR 739/17 is a case decided on 13 February 2020 by the German Federal Constitutional Court (German: Bundesverfassungsgericht; abbreviated: BVerfG) in which the Court decided that the Act of Approval, i.e. for the ratification, of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court of 19 February 2013 (EPGÜ-ZustG) in Germany was null and void, because it had not been approved by the German federal parliament (German: Bundestag) sitting with the required quorum.[1][2][3][4][5]
The case was initiated with a complaint filed in March 2017 by German lawyer Ingve Björn Stjerna and the order was published on 20 March 2020.[1][3] It was decided by the Court's second senate with Justice Andreas Voßkuhle presiding and Justice Peter Huber acting as judge rapporteur.[6] Among the Court's eight judges, Justices Ulrich Maidowski, Doris König, and Christine Langenfeld dissented.[1][3]