On Wednesday 13 March, MEPs adopted the report by Adrián Vázquez Lázara (Renew Europe, Spanish) on the regulation creating a European compulsory licence (484 votes in favour, 121 against and 20 abstentions). The text aims to enable the European Commission to issue compulsory licences to companies, i.e. to allow a company to use a patent without the authorisation of its holder, in cross-border emergency situations and under strict conditions.
However, the spirit of the text is to...