Brussels, 03/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Council has still not reached agreement on the launch of the Community patent (which should have been adopted at the end of last year). The Spanish Presidency put forward a new compromise proposal this week on the sensitive areas - translation costs, the role of national patent offices, charges and legal systems. After taking the proposal apart point by point, the Permanent Representatives finally agreed to continue working on it with the aim of...