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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10233

12 October 2010
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competitiveness council
Continued discord among 27 over patents

Luxembourg, 11/10/2010 (Agence Europe) - European competitiveness ministers were unable, on Monday, to reach agreement on the European patent, mainly due to fears expressed by Italy and Spain. The Belgian presidency had sought to reach an agreement by suggesting a compromise to the different delegations, so that English would become the only language into which patents would be translated. This would be for a transitional period only until machine translation has reached a sufficient level....

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