There will be no such thing like a Community Patent. Most probably.
EUPolitix.com writes on the results to be expected from the Competitiveness Council tomorrow on March 11, 2004:
"[...] Brussels has blasted national capitals for failing to deliver on a new European patent.
A European Commission spokesman admitted that chances for a breakthrough at a Thursday meeting of Europe's competition ministers are slim.
'The European Commission is deeply disappointed the states have failed to agree on this measure,' said a spokesman for EU internal market commissioner Frits Bolkestein.
'We are not in a flying pig situation, but the chances [of agreement] are not enormous,' he continued.
'If there was an example of ministers’ declarations failing to fulfil actions on the ground – this is it.' [...]
Sticking points preventing a breakthrough on the patent focus on two language issues: delays in translation of the patent claims and the validity of patents with errors in their translation."
EUPolitix.com writes on the results to be expected from the Competitiveness Council tomorrow on March 11, 2004: