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BLOG@IP::JURPatent Attorney Axel H Horns' Blog on Intellectual Property Law.
Monday, October 15, 2007Mr Charlie McCreevy Again on Patents.Mr Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, at the occasion of a Honorary Fellowship speech, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, October 12, 2007:"[...] But to maximise our prospects of success, we will have a lot to do at European level to move our economies up the value chain. Clearly Europe needs to quickly develop a bigger and more efficient knowledge based economy. That sounds like a cliché. But we can only do it through effective action: Action that will produce more innovators, educated in Europe, remaining in Europe and registering and protecting their patents in Europe. But can we really expect young inventors or start-up businesses that are the seed corn of our future prosperity to register and protect their patents in Europe if the cost of doing it is 11 times greater than in the United States? Against this background, should we be surprised that we are so far behind on innovation? The excessive costs are not the product of some externalities that we cannot control but of an unwieldy litigation regime and a cumbersome patent registration regime across 27 Member States instead of a single patent regime and simple litigation regime for all Member States. The solution to this problem is within our hands and that is why I have put forward some ideas over the past six months for moving forward in this area. It is simply not acceptable for issues such as language to stand in the way of sorting this problem out. The sooner we address it, the more innovation in Europe there will be, and the more new investment, growth and jobs we can create. [...]"Read  more ...Technorati Tags:  Patents
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