WEEKLY NEWS - NOVEMBER 21, 2008
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EU judges keep faith in Community patent
Managing Intellectual Property
European IP judges have called on those EU member states that support a Community patent and single court system to press ahead, if necessary without the support of all 27 countries
In a resolution following their annual meeting in Venice from November 14 to 16, the group of 29 judges from 15 countries said: “We regret a certain slowdown in possible further progress and urge all member states of the European Union to give full support to both initiatives.”
But recent discussions between member states have made it increasingly unlikely that pan-EU agreement will be reached.
This prompted the judges to say: “If it will not be possible to win the support of all EU member states for the proposed court-system and the Community patent, both projects should be realised by using the possibilities of an enhanced cooperation foreseen by the EC Treaty.”
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