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Van Quickenborne: Single European patent key industrial priority under Belgian EU presidency

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http://www.euractiv.com/en/euro/eu-patent-make-or-break-belgian-presidency-ne... Vincent Van Quickenborne is Belgium's Minister for Economy and Reform. He talks about Belgium's EU presidency ambitions to reach a breakthrough on a single European patent by December 2010. Linguistic issues are the main obstacle, he says in this interview at the fringes of a chemical industry conference in Antwerp.

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  • Italy and Spain block Belgium's proposal, see euractiv.com/en/innovation/ita­ly-and-spain-block-eu-wide-pat­ent-talks-news-499638 

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  • We are already familiar with a unilingual patent dystopi the size of EU. Please vote Pirate to get rid of this big mess of innovation obstacles the patent system constitutes!

  • Patents are broad monopoly rights that inevitably lead to high costs for all sides.

    Abolishing languages means increasing the costs for the public.

    Europe's linguistic diversity is only serving as a scapegoat here.

    It's the system that is inherently too slow and burdensome for today's information society.

    Once the EU patent system is set up, the rules will be set by patent lawyers and reform will be impossible.

    This system is another pre-programmed failure for the EU.

  • 12k? awww! Those amounts are peanuts for most companys, and now i have to pay that for them with my tax money?! Nothing against helping the small businesses, but THAT just helps the mega corps to file 100 patents more per day. Screw this.

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