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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10172

2 July 2010
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/intellectual property
Commission re-engages EU patent linguistic battle

Brussels, 01/07/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 1 July, the European Commission adopted a draft regulation setting out the linguistic regime for the new European Union, building on the current language regime of the European Patents Office (EPO), the inter-governmental body responsible for granting European patents and the new EU patent (see EUROPE 10167). Patent applications, containing a description of the invention, must be submitted in one of the three EPO official languages -...

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