Breakaway countries bid to end deadlock on EU patent
This article was originally published in RAJ Devices
Executive Summary
Several EU member states are planning to break the deadlock on the translation arrangements for the future single EU patent by using a special procedure under which a group of at least nine countries can press ahead on draft legislation that would otherwise require all 27 countries to be on board1,2.
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