06/07/2018 (Agence Europe) – At an event in Munich on Thursday 5 July, the brand new head of the European Patents Office (EPO), António Campinos, told 200 industrialists, academics and government representatives that the new single patent system should cover some twenty member states when it is launched. He pointed out that at the moment, same 16 member states have already ratified the agreement on the unified patent jurisdiction. Only the ratification of Germany (and above all, the...