[Patents] Europe : Recherche : priorites de la Presidence francaise

[Jean-Jacques de Jong jean-jacques_de-jong@hp.com]

Bernard Lang wrote:
> 
> sorry .. that is in French
> 
> Une info presque fraiche...
> 
> > En tout premier lieu, la promotion de l'innovation - notamment la
> > création d'entreprises technologiques innovantes, a été identifiée
> > comme une priorité par le Conseil européen de Lisbonne. À cette fin,
> > le ministre français propose d'accélérer la création d'un brevet
> > européen, .....
> 
> mais il ne parle pas specifiquement de brevets logiciels


They must have mistaken "european patent" (which already exists) with
"community patent", which is a project.

The existing european patent system provides a single filing and
prosecution procedure for obtaining a "bundle" of european patents,
converted into national patents in the countries chosen by the applicant
- a subsequent decision (infringement or validity) taken by a court in
one country does not apply to the other countries.

The community patent system would yield a single patent, covering all
the countries of the community - a decision taken by a court anywhere in
the community would apply to all countries of the community. This
project is based on the "Green Book", which no longer excludes software
as such from patentability.

JJJ