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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9767

23 October 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/intellectual property
Council tackles questions of annual payments to be made by Community patent holders

Brussels, 22/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - National experts at the Council are continuing their work on the Community patent. At the beginning of October they tackled two issues linked to the annual fees which companies have to make to keep the Community patent in force: the level of these fees and their division between the European Patents Office (EPO) and national patent offices. The European Commission sent out a document introducing several possibilities for making the calculation. During a...

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