tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post7518500062218529592..comments2024-03-29T11:10:02.290+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Friday fantasiesVerónica Rodríguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-18776709374199426052012-03-07T07:53:58.336+00:002012-03-07T07:53:58.336+00:00@Nathan Wajsman:
Page 28 of the Impact Assessment...@Nathan Wajsman:<br /><br />Page 28 of the Impact Assessment relates to Option 2, which has been abandoned by the Commission more than one year ago.<br /><br />Sub-option 3.2 at page 34 of the same document (i.e. the enhanced cooperation) is now under discussion, so that the estimate of Eurochambres is completely wrong.Pay-Tentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-19504605442714948242012-03-06T15:21:24.271+00:002012-03-06T15:21:24.271+00:00fantasies you ask how Eurochambres came up with th...fantasies you ask how Eurochambres came up with their 425.000 EUR/day cost of the “patent stalemate”. Here is the answer: in the Commission’s impact statement:<br /> <br />http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/indprop/docs/patent/sec2011-482-final_en.pdf<br /> <br />it is stated on p. 28 that the annual savings for users would be 159 M EUR per annum if a patent covering the 27 member states were to be created. Dividing this by 365 yields 435.616 EUR per day. I suspect that Eurochambres lowered this to a nice round 425.000 to account for the non-participation of Italy and Spain.Nathan Wajsmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-10092731360001025772012-03-02T21:05:24.664+00:002012-03-02T21:05:24.664+00:00The estimate is totally wrong, since under the cur...The estimate is totally wrong, since under the current option 3.2 of the impact assessment "The overall savings COULD reach € 50 million per year." (emphasis added)<br /><br />Moreover, these "savings" take into account the number of granted patents x average validation costs, however the average validation countries are France, Germany, UK, Spain and Italy, so that actually there should be no saving at all.<br /><br />Furthermore, validation costs include filing attorney's and official fees, so that translation costs are less than the half of the validation costs.<br /><br />Finally, the translation costs would be not saved, but just transferred to the shoulders of the public and third parties.<br /><br />Not to mention the costs of another "disastrous" European Regulations...Pay-Tentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-58863939525394034442012-03-02T18:01:55.246+00:002012-03-02T18:01:55.246+00:00The Eurochambres’ press release says that the esti...The Eurochambres’ <a href="http://www.eurochambres.eu/DocShare/docs/1/GJNDJIPDLJFFKABNJCMJNIEFB191BOH7VN4YT3HAWY9Y/EUROCHAMBRES/docs/DLS/05-Patents_17Feb12-2012-00134-01.pdf" rel="nofollow">press release</a> says that the estimate is based on figures published by the <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/indprop/docs/patent/sec2011-483-final_en.pdf" rel="nofollow">European Commission’s impact assessment </a> related to the creation of the unitary patent in April last year" and is based on “validation costs”. €193million per year according to the impact assessment (€527.000 per day in a leap year)Franciscohttp://patentes.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com