Re: [Patents] S'Agaró

[Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis@tinet.org>]

El Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 08:56:46PM +0100, PILCH Hartmut deia:
> > I've heard in the radio (or thought to) that the informal meeting of
> > ministers of Research and Industry has approved the Community Patent.
> 
> with the EPO in charge ?
> 
I don't know. I don't even know whether they decided anything at all 
about the Community Patent. I browsed a little yesterday after 
hearing the radio, but I couldn't find out. Are decisions in informal 
meetings supposed to be published anywhere?. 
I thought I heard something was decided, then the note from Europa Press
in Vilaweb seemed to say that it was to be approved in the Barcelona 
summit in March. I don't know whether they reached consensus and are just 
going 
to sign it in Barcelona, they simply delayed it again to discuss it 
there, or what. I mean, the last summit was also announced to approve 
the Community Patent, but there wasn't agreement...

> > I'm talking of an informal  meeting little anticipated in the news
> > (I hadn't heard until it was happening). Almost all news only speak
> > about the target set to allocate 3% of PIB (producte interior brut,
> > what's the English for that, gross interior product?) to research,
> > preferably by the private sector.
> 
> probably GDP: gross domestic product
> 
That is. Thanks. 


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