Brussels, 15/02/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 15 February, the European Parliament, by a wide majority, gave its consent for the enhanced cooperation procedure to be used to create a Community patent system. In December 2010, 12 member states made a request for this procedure after it proved impossible to get all member states to agree on an EU-wide patent system. All member states, with the exceptions of Italy and Spain, which are opposed to the three-language (English, French and...