http://blog.ksnh.eu/en/2012/07/10/juri-committee-considers-council-version-of-unitary-patent-regulation-infringing-eu-primary-law-and-leaves-for-summer-break/ Intellectual Property Observations Thu, 14 Nov 2013 21:31:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://blog.ksnh.eu/en/2012/07/10/juri-committee-considers-council-version-of-unitary-patent-regulation-infringing-eu-primary-law-and-leaves-for-summer-break/#comment-818 RC Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:00:43 +0000 http://blog.ksnh.eu/en/?p=3361#comment-818 Those who, for rather obscure and probably self-serving reasons, have been lobbying for the exclusion of Arts. 6-8 from the Regulation must be feeling pretty damn proud of themselves. On the other hand, it is strange that another one of the EU Council's changes to the proposal, namely that of allowing non-EU patentees (and only them!) to bring infringement actions to the Central Division, has not attracted more attention, considering its implications for the language of the proceedings, and the advantages that it may give to large multinationals and foreign trolls over homegrown SMEs... Those who, for rather obscure and probably self-serving reasons, have been lobbying for the exclusion of Arts. 6-8 from the Regulation must be feeling pretty damn proud of themselves.
On the other hand, it is strange that another one of the EU Council’s changes to the proposal, namely that of allowing non-EU patentees (and only them!) to bring infringement actions to the Central Division, has not attracted more attention, considering its implications for the language of the proceedings, and the advantages that it may give to large multinationals and foreign trolls over homegrown SMEs…

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