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Big Europatent, little news

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Via a Tweet from the IPKat's friend Axel Horns comes news of an EU Council Decision which, as Axel puts it, is "inching towards enhanced co-operation in area of creation of unitary patent protection". It says
"1. On 16 December 2010, the Commission submitted to the Council a proposal for a Council Decision authorising enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection.

2. At the meeting of the Permanent Representatives Committee on 7 February 2011, all delegations (including the Commission) but two agreed on the text of the draft Council Decision to be transmitted to the European Parliament for its consent.

3. In the light of the above, the Council is invited to decide, as an "A" item of one of its forthcoming meetings, to transmit the text of the proposed Decision, as set out in 5538/11, to the European Parliament in order to obtain the latter's consent in accordance with Article 329(1) of TFEU, the Italian and Spanish delegations voting against".
You can read the document in full here.
Big Europatent, little news Big Europatent, little news Reviewed by Jeremy on Thursday, February 10, 2011 Rating: 5

2 comments:

  1. AnonymousThursday, 10 February 2011 at 14:55:00 GMT

    I find the term "authorising enhanced co-operation" really rather sinister; an euphemism whose time has not yet arrived. Whose co-operation is being enhanced, how and by whom? As a term, in my head it seems so naturally to develop into the phrase "Enhanced co-operation measures have been authorised for use against the protestors"...

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  2. AnonymousFriday, 11 February 2011 at 13:28:00 GMT

    This is more newsworthy than it may appear to be. For all their pomp, the ministerial-level meetings of the Council generally rubberstamp what has been voted earlier by the Permanent Representatives. And it's interesting to note that it has now become a straight 25-2 fight, with the Cypriots and the Czechs joining the "enhanced co-operation" camp.

    Unless the CJEU completely derails the whole thing in March, this is the endgame.

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