is dead, says Axel H. Horns, and describes some background on the latest unsuccessful Council session, as well as citing a statement by Commissioner Frits Bolkestein. For some strange reason many Member States don't seem to like the idea that all patents in the system should be just in English.
I wrote here on March 7 last year:
I'll believe it when I see it in the Official Journal. This is not the first announcement that the EU agrees on joint patent system. Basically the language issue is extremely difficult to solve.
It seems I was right then.
Posted by Karl-Friedrich Lenz at March 13, 2004 06:53 PM | TrackBack