Brussels, 10/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 10 December, EU Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier accepted a request from 11 member states (France, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden and the United Kingdom) to introduce enhanced cooperation to create a European patent. He told the Competitiveness Council that such requests were acceptable. After a decade of negotiations, the Council is facing deadlock on the issue because...