EU unitary patent package: one more chance for agreement
01 June 2012
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James Nurton, London
EU heads of government will have one final chance to agree the unitary patent package at the EU Summit at the end of June, after ministers failed to resolve a dispute over the location of the court’s central division this week
The patent plans were discussed in a private session during the EU Competitiveness Council meeting on Wednesday. Ole Sohn, Denmark’s minister for business and growth, said in a press conference on Wednesday night that there was no agreement on where the central division of the planned unified patent court should be.
But he repeated his view that the location of the court is the “one remaining issue” preventing agreement on the patent package and added: “The Council has done a lot of the groundwork.”
“We have worked intensively since we started our presidency...
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