Competitiveness Council (Internal Market, Research, Industry) fails to reach compromise on Community Patent.
The Competitiveness Council (Internal Market, Research, Industry) has, at the session held at Brussels on November 26 and 27, 2003 failed in a spectacular way to set up a framework for the EU Community Patent system. According to document 15141/03 (Presse 337), the Council examined outstanding questions on the draft Regulation creating the Community Patent. At the end of the discussion, the Presidency noted that although there was broad agreement on the compromise text, complete agreement could not be reached at that stage as the question of the period for filing compulsory translations of the claims of the Community patent remained unresolved.