Comments on: Stormy Weather Ahead: Unitary Patent, ACTA in European Parliament

By: Unitary Patent: Political Struggle and Shift of Competence towards Central Division | ksnh::law

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:40:11 +0000

[...] know from the latest available draft text of the Unitary Patent Regulation dated 23 June 2011 (see here and [...]

By: Axel H. Horns

Axel H. Horns — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:10:45 +0000

@BBear

Thanks for the hint, I’ve rectified that now.

By: BBear

BBear — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:26:30 +0000

Sorry, false alarm. The link in your post is missing an “l” alt the end (http://jutta-steinruck.blogspot.de/2012/07/eu-patent-nachste-woche-im.html).

By: BBear

BBear — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:21:12 +0000

Interestingly, the referenced page in the Blog of MEP Jutta Steinruck with the commentary re the Council acting treacherously has meanwhile been deleted! No more reference at all to the outcome of the summit.

By: Axel H. Horns

Axel H. Horns — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:04:32 +0000

@Tim Roberts

Well, I thought that in December 2011 the EU Council had reached informal conclusions except concerning the seat of the central division. This result was then modified / informally approved by the trilateral back-room dealing by Commission, Council and JURI.

So, my picture was that if the European Summit had just decided, say, the seat of the central division goes to Paris, and nothing else … then I would have expected the entire thing nodded through by EUPARL later this week.

Do you think there never was something like an *informally* agreed set of texts?

By: Tim Roberts

Tim Roberts — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:54:05 +0000

“.. the Heads of Government …preferred to proceed differently. They obviously have unbundled the previously agreed package…”
As has been said before, the ‘package’ had *not* been agreed – despite repeated assertions that it had been. Agreement is not reached by constantly reiterating that agreement has been reached.

By: Peter Lustig

Peter Lustig — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:27:55 +0000

I totally agree, but this may be a rather naive view. I would not be suprised to see Spain and Italy withdrawing their complaints against enhanced cooperation re the unitary patent sooner or later. Bear in mind the Euro crisis and expect some sort of “political” quid pro quo deal along the lines “We assist you if you stop your opposition”.

By: zoobab

zoobab — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:55:25 +0000

Since both ACTA and the Unipat have pending procedures before the ECJ, the EP should not make it on the agenda until those procedures has been cleared.