Brussels, 13/12/2001 (Agence Europe) - Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt is to present at the Laeken Summit a compromise proposal seeking to bring the creation of the Community Patent out of the wood. After the failure of the discussions on this subject during the last Internal Market Council (see EUROPE of 28 November, p.6), the Presidency presented a new compromise in order to settle the two main points of divergence, the linguistic regime for the patent and the role of national...