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European Parliament Approves Enhanced Cooperation Procedure to Create Unified EP Patent System

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By James DeGiulio -- In late December, after once again failing to get unanimous approval for a united EP patent system, twelve of the EU countries supporting the unified system requested relief from "enhanced cooperation," a rarely used provision of the Lisbon Treaty (see "Several EU Members Push for Unified Patent System"). This non-traditional legislative campaign proved successful, for on February 15, the European Parliament approved the request to use "enhanced cooperation" to launch the reform of the European system, clearing perhaps the last major hurdle leading to a new unified single patent system in Europe. The vote passed with...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on March 02, 2011 (boomark / email).