Posted by: Axel H. Horns in Untagged on
Jan 01, 2009
Back in November 2007, I had reported on a very interesting presentation by Dr. Jens Gaster of GD Internal Market, EU Commission, Brussels, which had been hosted by the Bavarian chapter of Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR) on November 05, 2007, in the premises of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office in Munich.
What had been quite exciting with regard to Mr Gaster's presentation was his optimism concerning a potential success in obtaining some sort of a political deal creating the legal basis for the EU Community Patent during the French EU Presidency from July to December 2008. Mr Gaster had expected that this Presidency will be decisive; if the French Government should fail to get the Community Patent through it will be dead maybe forever, he
A few days ago, from Mr Nikki Tait in
FT.com:
"[...] Efforts to break the logjam over a so-called 'community patent' - a single intellectual property right which would give a holder protection in all 27 EU countries - have gathered pace in recent months and are being pursued by the current Slovenian presidency. [...] The last effort to launch a community patent had to be abandoned in 2003, because countries were unable to agree on a language regime for the new IP right. But under proposals being hammered out in Brussels, officials hope to offer countries the option of machine-based translation, which could convert a patent into all 23 official EU languages for minimal cost in a matter of minutes. Officials say that this would cost only a few million euros to set up, and allow equal
Posted by: Axel H. Horns in London Agreement, EPO on
Jan 30, 2008
Today, the German Ministry of Justice has confirmed that the French Instrument of Ratification for the London Agreement has reached the premises of the German Foreign Office yesterday, 2008-01-29, in the evening hours. Hence, the London Agreement will enter into force on
May 01, 2008.
The London Agreement will be effective for all European patents in respect of which the mention of grant was published in the European Patent Bulletin after May 01, 2008, to the extent of the present geographical coverage of the Agreement. See also the related statement on the Official website of the EPO.
The text of the London Agreement is available &
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