24 EU Members Sign Unified Patent Court Agreement 19/02/2013 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)By Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch Twenty-four members of the European Union today signed the unified patent court agreement in Brussels, including Italy. [Update:] Bulgaria became the 25th EU member to sign, on 5 March. The event “is an important milestone in the continued development of the single market,” Irish Minister for Jobs, Enterprises and Innovation Richard Bruton said. But “there is still some way to go” to achieve the goal of pan-EU patent protection at an affordable price, Internal Market and Services Commissioner Michel Barnier said at an 18 February Brussels conference. Four major challenges remain, he said: (1) Getting the remaining governments to sign. Bulgaria will do so once it completes internal administrative procedures, Poland and Spain have refused to join but could do so later if they wish. (2) Having the pact ratified by national parliaments. (3) Ensuring that the new patent system actually works. (4) Making sure the court is fully operational. “We must face facts,” he said: “Making all this come true in a very short ‘time frame’ will not be easy and will require a lot of work.” The UK Business Secretary issued a press statement, available 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 "24 EU Members Sign Unified Patent Court Agreement" by Intellectual Property Watch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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