[pp.int.general] Fwd: [The IPKat] Unitary patents: how Spain takes on the rest of Europe

Tue Jul 12 22:57:39 CEST 2011

I, too, welcome the clarification.

Daniel

2011/7/12 Amelia Andersdotter <teirdes at gmail.com>

> spain and italy are objection to an "enhanced cooperation" inside the
> european union. to my knowledge, this has only happened once before, then
> with the prüm convention, negotiated and signed between six member states as
> an enhanced cooperation on issues of preventing terrorism.
>
> it was signed and ratified by the original 6 states in 2004, and was made
> into EU law by 2006 i think (both signing and making into eu law was done
> under commissioner frattini i guess, even if the original cooperation would
> have been approved by his predecessor).
>
> what italy and spain thus know is that if there is an enhanced cooperation
> around patents negotiated and signed, they can expect to "have" to join
> within the next couple of years.
>
> italy and spain are not opposed to the patent cooperation AS SUCH but feel
> it unproper that the language requirements do not include italian or spanish
> (italian in particular is reasonable - there's almost 10 million more
> italian speakers than french or native english speakers in the union).
>
> as for enhanced cooperation: it's on a case to case basis. michel barnier
> at dg trade is an IPR maximalist, much like the rest of his political party
> in France (UMP, also home to Sarkoszy). the ECJ have already said that the
> existing proposal for community patent (inside the european union) are not
> compliant with the existing framework treaties. it remains to be seen if the
> ECJ actually has the power to stop 25 member states of the union striking an
> additional agreement outside of the scope of the Union's existing framework
> or not - it' be weird if they could, since it'd basically mean the benelux
> trademark cooperation also is fishy with respect to eu law.
>
>
> On 12.07.2011 22:18, Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet) wrote:
>
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>> What does this mean in practice?
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>> On 07/12/2011 01:07 PM, Amelia Andersdotter wrote:
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>>> hope nobody missed this
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject:        [The IPKat] Unitary patents: how Spain takes on the rest
>>> of
>>> Europe
>>> Date:   Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:55:58 -0700 (PDT)
>>> From:   Jeremy<jjip at btinternet.com>
>>> Reply-To:       jjip at btinternet.com
>>> To:     ipkat_readers at googlegroups.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> <http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-**JSgGP5tKaRQ/Ths4_RFoQwI/**
>>> AAAAAAAASRg/Ksn_1hoZo5U/s1600/**wain.jpg<http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JSgGP5tKaRQ/Ths4_RFoQwI/AAAAAAAASRg/Ksn_1hoZo5U/s1600/wain.jpg>
>>> >
>>> *Casually checking the Curia website for signs of excitement *on a
>>> Monday is usually a bit of a waste of time.  This Kat was prowling
>>> around the site in the hope that perhaps some careless bureaucrat had
>>> inadvertently posted tomorrow's ruling in Case C-324/09 /L’Oréal v eBay/
>>> a day early. The Kat's curiosity was rewarded -- but not in the way he'd
>>> hoped.  Instead he found a real live action brought by the Spanish
>>> against our lords and masters in the Council of the European Union
>>> itself: *Case C-274/11
>>> <http://curia.europa.eu/**jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=**
>>> en&newform=newform&Submit=**Submit&alljur=alljur&jurcdj=**
>>> jurcdj&jurtpi=jurtpi&jurtfp=**jurtfp&alldocrec=alldocrec&**
>>> docj=docj&docor=docor&**docdecision=docdecision&docop=**
>>> docop&docppoag=docppoag&docav=**docav&docsom=docsom&docinf=**
>>> docinf&alldocnorec=**alldocnorec&docnoj=docnoj&**
>>> docnoor=docnoor&radtypeord=on&**typeord=ALL&docnodecision=**
>>> docnodecision&allcommjo=**allcommjo&affint=affint&**
>>> affclose=affclose&numaff=274%**2F11&ddatefs=&mdatefs=&**
>>> ydatefs=&ddatefe=&mdatefe=&**ydatefe=&nomusuel=&domaine=&**
>>> mots=&resmax=100<http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=en&newform=newform&Submit=Submit&alljur=alljur&jurcdj=jurcdj&jurtpi=jurtpi&jurtfp=jurtfp&alldocrec=alldocrec&docj=docj&docor=docor&docdecision=docdecision&docop=docop&docppoag=docppoag&docav=docav&docsom=docsom&docinf=docinf&alldocnorec=alldocnorec&docnoj=docnoj&docnoor=docnoor&radtypeord=on&typeord=ALL&docnodecision=docnodecision&allcommjo=allcommjo&affint=affint&affclose=affclose&numaff=274%2F11&ddatefs=&mdatefs=&ydatefs=&ddatefe=&mdatefe=&ydatefe=&nomusuel=&domaine=&mots=&resmax=100>>*
>>> /Kingdom
>>> of Spain v Council of the European Union,/ to be precise.  This is an
>>> action to annul *Council Decision 2011/167
>>> <http://eur-lex.europa.eu/**LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=**
>>> OJ:L:2011:076:0053:0055:en:PDF<http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2011:076:0053:0055:en:PDF>
>>> **>*
>>> of 10 March 2011 authorising enhanced cooperation in the area of the
>>> creation of unitary patent protection (OJ 2011 L 76, p. 53). The legal
>>> substance of the Spanish case runs like this:
>>>
>>>     "*Pleas in law and main arguments *
>>>
>>>     1. Misuse of powers since recourse was had to enhanced cooperation
>>>     although the purpose is not to achieve integration of all the Member
>>>     States - the mechanism having been used instead to avoid negotiating
>>>     with a Member State, imposing upon it an opt-out solution - and
>>>     although the objectives pursued in this instance could have been
>>>     achieved by means of a special agreement as provided for in Article
>>>     142 of the *European Patent Convention
>>>     <http://www.epo.org/law-**practice/legal-texts/html/epc/**
>>> 2010/e/ma1.html<http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/2010/e/ma1.html>
>>> >*.
>>>
>>>     2. Failure to respect the judicial system of the EU in that no
>>>     dispute resolution system is provided for in relation to certain
>>>     legal rights subject to EU law.
>>>
>>>     3. In the alternative, should the Court find that it is appropriate
>>>     in this instance to have recourse to enhanced cooperation and that
>>>     it is possible to establish substantive rules for legal rights
>>>     subject to EU law without making provision for a dispute resolution
>>>     system in relation to those rights, the Kingdom of Spain submits
>>>     that the necessary conditions for enhanced cooperation are not met
>>>     for the following reasons:
>>>
>>>     3.1 infringement of Article 20(1) *TEU
>>>     <http://eur-lex.europa.eu/**LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=**
>>> OJ:C:2008:115:0013:0045:EN:PDF<http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2008:115:0013:0045:EN:PDF>
>>> **>(that's
>>>     the Treaty on European Union, not to be confused with ...)*, since
>>>     in this instance enhanced cooperation is not a last resort and does
>>>     not fulfil the objectives provided for in the TEU and since areas
>>>     are referred to which are not within the scope of enhanced
>>>     cooperation as they are exclusive competence of the EU.
>>>
>>>     3.2 infringement of Article 326 *(... the Treaty on the Functioning
>>>     of the European Union)* *TFEU
>>>     <http://eur-lex.europa.eu/**LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=**
>>> OJ:C:2010:083:0047:0200:en:PDF<http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2010:083:0047:0200:en:PDF>
>>> **>*,
>>>     since enhanced cooperation in this instance infringes the principle
>>>     of non-discrimination and undermines the internal market and
>>>     economic, social and territorial cohesion, constituting
>>>     discrimination in trade between Member States and distorting
>>>     competition between them.
>>>
>>>     3.3 infringement of Article 327 TFEU, since the enhanced cooperation
>>>     does not respect the rights of the Kingdom of Spain, which is not
>>>     participating in it".
>>>
>>> Spain has taken on the rest of Europe before -- *winning in commendable
>>> style*<http://en.wikipedia.**org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2008<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2008>>
>>>  -- but this is
>>> different, notes the IPKat: it's not the other bits of Europe that Spain
>>> is challenging this time, so much as the rules of the game themselves.
>>> Hmm, says Merpel, the politics gets really interesting once you bring
>>> football into it.  Spain's prowess is, to a considerable extent, owed to
>>> the excellence of a team from Catalonia, the little of the planet that
>>> uses the .cat top level domain.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Posted By Jeremy to The IPKat
>>> <http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/**2011/07/unitary-patents-how-**
>>> spain-takes-on-rest.html<http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2011/07/unitary-patents-how-spain-takes-on-rest.html>
>>> >
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