EUROPEAN PATENT : BARROSO INTERVENES TO UNFREEZE DOSSIER.

The President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, took charge, on 18 January at the European Parliament, to move forward on establishing the EU's future single patent. "We urgently need to reach an agreement on the European patent. I expect negotiations on this point to reach a conclusion at the start of the Danish Presidency".

Said negotiations had stumbled at the last Competitiveness Council, on 5 December 2011, over the location of the headquarters of the central division of the European jurisdictional system of patents. This blocked the process, which will lead to the creation of a single patent in the EU as part of the reinforced cooperation of 25 member states (Italy and Spain are opposed to the translation system and have opted out). London, Munich and Paris were candidates - with Paris proposed by the Polish Presidency of the Council, which irritated the losers'. The efforts of the Polish Presidency were not crowned with success, and the Polish Minister of European Affairs, Mikolaj Dowgielewicz, did in fact admit, on 16 December 2011, that talks had failed over this point - which relates to the jurisdictional system of the future single patent. With regard to the other chapters of this future patent - the regulation (co-decision) implementing the future patent and the regulation establishing the translation modalities - an agreement was reached between the Presidency and the Parliament negotiators on 2 December.

NEGOTIATIONS RESUME

The Danish Presidency resumed the discussion process with the three member states early...

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