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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8156

22 February 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/patent
EP's Legal Committee calls for five official languages for Community patent - Deadlock at Council

Brussels, 21/02/2002 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament's Legal and Internal Market Committee has adopted a report by Ana Palacio (Partido Popular, Spain) calling for five languages to be used for the Community Patent. The report will be presented to the March plenary. After long negotiations, the MEPs decided to follow their rapporteur's suggestions and request a scheme based on the Alicante trademark office's system whereby patents can be requested in any official EU language but...

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