Brussels, 04/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - "Going on the principle of 'operation successful, patient dead', the Council has succeeded in shrouding the European Patent in confusion ," says CDU MEP Klaus-Heiner Lehne of the political compromise reached in the Council on Monday (see yesterday's Europe, p.8). The European Parliament had requested that it be left up to national tribunals to dispose of the substantive issues on the European patent, he points out, criticizing the Council compromise...