Brussels, 26/06/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 24 June, the member states gave their blessing to plans to cut the costs of renewing the European unitary patent, which will ultimately drop from an average of €30,000 to €5,000, bringing the cost down sixfold.
“After decades of negotiations on the unitary patent (…), we have taken a major step towards its completion”, said the Commissioner for the Single Market and Industry, Elzbieta Bienkowska. This reduction, which was decided...