Europe tries again as Commission questions community patent
24 November 2002
Just days after European industry threatened to withdraw its support for the proposed community patent, the project received another blow when the Commission suggested dropping it altogether
Europe tries again as Commission questions community patent
Just days after European industry threatened to withdraw its support for the proposed community patent, the project received another blow when the Commission suggested dropping it altogether Sunday, 24-Nov-02 00:00:00 GMTNews11540
Just days after European industry threatened to withdraw its support for the proposed
community patent, the project received another blow when the Commission suggested dropping it
altogether.
Frustrated by member states' failure to agree a compromise blueprint for the patent,
internal market commissioner Fritz Bolkestein issued a stark...
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