Comments on: Organisation Of Work On EU Patent Reform Under Polish EU Presidency http://blog.ksnh.eu/en/2011/07/10/organisation-of-work-on-eu-patent-reform-under-polish-eu-presidency/ Intellectual Property Observations Thu, 14 Nov 2013 21:31:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Gibus http://blog.ksnh.eu/en/2011/07/10/organisation-of-work-on-eu-patent-reform-under-polish-eu-presidency/#comment-5 Gibus Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:42:02 +0000 http://blog.ksnh.eu/en/?p=157#comment-5 Friends of the Presidency Group is a working group that prepares work for Coreper. Just like the working group on intellectual property (patents) that had prepared the work on EU Patent and EEUPC until the smash from ECJ. But Friends of Presidency Group has a more "horizontal" role. It can be guessed that this time the work has not being left to the working group on patents because there are a lot of legal issues that go beyond patent law, as the ECJ Opinion has shown. Actually, giving the multiple loopholes in the legal basis of the regulation on the unitary patent (see <a href="https://www.unitary-patent.eu/content/legal-basis-unitary-patent-do-not-play-fire" rel="nofollow">my analysis</a>), I would say that the need for multidisciplinary experts is far from useless... There is some information on the work of the Council <a href="http://www.lobbyplanet.eu/wiki/who/the-council-of-the-european-union/how-council-works/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Friends of the Presidency Group is a working group that prepares work for Coreper. Just like the working group on intellectual property (patents) that had prepared the work on EU Patent and EEUPC until the smash from ECJ. But Friends of Presidency Group has a more “horizontal” role. It can be guessed that this time the work has not being left to the working group on patents because there are a lot of legal issues that go beyond patent law, as the ECJ Opinion has shown.

Actually, giving the multiple loopholes in the legal basis of the regulation on the unitary patent (see my analysis), I would say that the need for multidisciplinary experts is far from useless…

There is some information on the work of the Council here.

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