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Thursday, February 02, 2006

European Parliament Committee: Hearing on European Patent Policy.

noticias.info

reports on a hearing held by a Committee of the the European Parliament:

"At a public hearing on intellectual property rights held on Tuesday by the Legal Affairs Committee, experts agreed that the current European patenting system is too costly for firms and could be hampering competition instead of boosting innovation. At the same time several speakers expressed doubt about using criminal law to enforce intellectual property rights. [...]"

For those who can read and understand German texts, here is

another report from

Heise's Newsticker. My scepticalness against criminal sanctions on acts of patent infringement is already documented

here in the context of a statement presented by CIPA. And, last not least, it is high time for the French Government to initiate the ratification of the

London Agreement in order to reduce translation costs.

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Patents, London Agreement

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Audio recordings:

http://media.ffii.org/juri060131/

# posted by zoobab : 02 February, 2006 18:02