Brussels, 06/12/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European patent, the idea of which is to reduce the cost to businesses of protecting inventions and which has been spoken about for over 20 years, is still not ready to become a reality. The ministers responsible for competitiveness of the 25 countries engaged in enhanced cooperation on this issue (Italy and Spain have declined to take part because of the linguistic regime), meeting on Monday evening 5 December, were unable to come to agreement on...