A twenty-year long deadlock on how to set up a European patent system, aimed at boosting the EU's economy, is still in place after a fresh failure of talks over the issue on Monday (4 December).
"It is a reality that in the EU we all have the same opinion. We have to renew our patent system – our litigation systems," said the Finnish trade and industry minister Mauri Pekkarinen, who led the Brussels meeting.
"But then when we start to discuss which kind of ways we need to…go forw...
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