Spain, Italy File Opposition To EU Unitary Patent 07/07/2011 by Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)The governments of Spain and Italy have filed complaints with the European Court of Justice calling for the annullment of a March European Council decision to create an EU unitary patent. The Council authorised “enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection” on 10 March (IPW, European Policy, 13 April 2011). Arguments include lack of competence and misuse of powers. German patent attorney Axel Horn, who posted the filings to his LinkedIn discussion, called them “no surprise.” Spain filing here. Italy filing here. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Related "Spain, Italy File Opposition To EU Unitary Patent" by Intellectual Property Watch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Pedro says 04/12/2011 at 2:11 pm I hope that the court agrees with the intentions of Spain and Italy since, England, Germany and France are implementing a racketeering plane in order to force the politicians of the other countries, which are completely lack of any sense of patriotic nationalism, to sell their languages in Exchange of fat European jobs in a time where it is no longer possible to guarantee fat jobs in their own countries. In 1939, for the second time, Germany tried to conquer the world by the war. I hope that anyone forget that. Today three countries are implementing an economical war against the others, regulating and publishing decisions that are good for them and bad for the others. Why should English, German and French be the languages to remain in the Unitary Patent? There are much more people speaking Spanish and Portuguese than German and French, this is ridiculous and discriminatory, which is against the European Union itself !!!!!!!!!!! For which reason a Spanish inventor shall be obliged to translate into English, German or French its invention in order to have it protected? And the costs? The rest of the Europe shall not be silenced and thanks Gog there is a Spain and an Italy and some good men in the world. Pedro Reply
[…] The effort is considered a compromise after the Commission was unable to get a full EU-wide patent several years ago. The Commission issued a proposal for a unitary patent in April (IPW, European Policy, 13 April 2011). The governments of Spain and Italy filed their opposition to the idea this summer (IPW, IP Live, 7 July 2011). […] Reply