Verheugen adds to Community patent momentum
06 May 2008
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James Nurton, Ljubljana
Patent protection in Europe is “cumbersome and costly” and there is an “urgent need” for both a Community patent and a solution to pan-European litigation, according to European Commission vice-president Günter Verheugen
His comments, made in a speech today at the European Patent
Forum 2008 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, are the latest sign that
momentum is building towards a Europe-wide agreement on patent
reform.
Verheugen said that, following the introduction of the
London...
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