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Friday, April 02, 2004

EU Community Patent: The Zombie Project that won't die?

From the

Presidency Conclusions (extract) - European Council Meeting in Brussels
25 and 26 March 2004:

"[...] The recent agreement on the Directive on strengthening the enforcement of intellectual property rights is welcome. However, agreement on the Community Patent is now long overdue and the European Council calls for further efforts to complete work on this proposal. [...]"

Perhaps they are hoping that the new Spanish Government will be more compliant to agree to a compromise on the language issue.

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