31/05/2011 (Agence Europe) - Patent. In a press release explaining why it was lodging an appeal with the EU General Court against the Council decision of 10 March authorising enhanced cooperation on the European patent (see EUROPE 10389), the Italian government says that this is setting “an unhelpful precedent in the process of European integration”, arguing that “enhanced cooperation was not envisaged as an instrument of division, defeating the norms of the treaties which require...