BARNIER CALLS FOR AGREEMENT ON EU PATENT COURT SEAT.

Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier has called on the German, British and French governments to reach an agreement on the location of the headquarters of the future European patent court, which all three governments are currently claiming for their country. It is over this point - among others - that discussions on a package establishing the single European patent stalled at the Council, in December 2011. "Currently, 25 member states and the European Parliament have agreed to create this single and...