Brussels, 13/03/2001 (Agence Europe) - Over seven hours of talks were not enough to break the deadlock over the issue of the Community patent, at the Internal Market Council in Brussels on Monday. The aim was to find agreement among the Fifteen for the EU to request of the Board of Administration of the European Patents Office (EPO), meeting in Munich on 13 March, to convene a diplomatic conference so as to include the future Community patent in the statutes of the Office. According to the...