Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-11-07-Speech-4-011"
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"Thank you, Mr President. I should like to confine my speech to the European Patent. This is in line with what Commissioner Bolkestein and the majority of speakers here have said – although the President-in-Office of the Council did not mention it in his speech.
We should give the Council a firm push and urge it to implement a European patent as quickly as possible. The problem that the Council faces, as we understand it, is the language regime, but this must not get in the way of a competitive economy, as the President-in-Office emphasised in his speech. When we take out a patent in the EU, we usually take it out in the USA as well, which means that we
translate it into English, so why not decide once and for all that a patent taken out in the EU only needs to be issued in English? This would be simpler and would save enormous expense, and would be in keeping with the way inventors work. They say: I have an innovative idea, I can sell it worldwide, and therefore I have to translate it into English. All inventors speak English; and I wish, therefore, to be a strong advocate of our now having a European patent with one language, and one language only: English. It would increase competitiveness, and would be in keeping with the costs we have to incur in any case. It would seem to me that the Council should now make an effort and push this through."@en1
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