tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post5829149067304898325..comments2024-03-28T16:45:51.051+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Latest news of EU patents and ugly acronymsVerónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-21186456301118293732010-01-11T13:06:05.676+00:002010-01-11T13:06:05.676+00:00Does this mean that we are going to have to start ...Does this mean that we are going to have to start replacing the 'Community' of the terms Community Trade Mark (CTM), Registered Community Design (RCD), and Community Patent with 'Union'?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-91928503735014815012009-12-18T20:03:32.586+00:002009-12-18T20:03:32.586+00:00As to the IPKat's comment "[Not sure: the...As to the IPKat's comment "[Not sure: the delay here struck the Kat as being the consequence of low-priority apathy rather than high-priority vigour. Different considerations surely apply now.]", I am curious on what the Kat's optimism is based. After all, both the Community Patent Convention of 1975 and the Agreement on Community Patents of 1989, which dealt with the very same subject, failed to enter into force because of ratification problems, even though at that time only 9 (1975) and 12 (1989) ratifications were required. We should not forget that at the time, the Coundil of the then EEC repeatedly urged the EEC Member States to speed up the ratification process, but nothing happened. <br /><br />As regards the EPC2000, we should not forget that its "early" entry into force already after 7 years was triggered by the large number of Central-European states that joined the EPC after the diplomatic conference that adopted the EPC2000. These accessions to the EPC1975 also included accessions to the EPC2000, so that the threshold number of ratifications / accessions that triggered entry into force 2 years later was met already after 5 years. <br />Presently, there is no comparable high number of new EPC accessions, so that it is very unlikely that any new EPC amendment will enter into force within 10 years.<br />In short, the path now chosen is nothing but a recipe for failure, and the agreement of December 4 is nothing but an agreement on the establishment of roadblocks. So, those who are opposed to the very idea of further improvements (e.g. because they make their living out of the present inefficiencies) have nothing to worry about for a very long period.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-35132608887613292582009-12-17T17:58:40.748+00:002009-12-17T17:58:40.748+00:00Regarding the EEUPC, the biggest danger is the pot...Regarding the EEUPC, the biggest danger is the potential for bifurcation of validity and infringement cases. <br /><br />See the 4 December IPKat article for the big 'debate' as to why this is so extremely dangerous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com