Brussels, 02/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - In early February, the European Parliament legal department sent the EP's legal affairs committee a confidential interim opinion on the implications for the EU of its member states potentially joining the European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA). Requested by the European Parliament in its October 2006 recommendation on the EU's future patent policy (see Europe 9286), the legal department's report is categorical: 'the Community's competence is...