Spain, Italy Lose EU Court Appeal Over Patent System Adoption
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Spain and Italy lost a challenge at the European Union’s highest court against the EU’s decision to push ahead without them to create the bloc’s first common patent system.
The EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg ruled today that given it was “impossible” for all of the EU’s 27 nations “to agree on a common system for the whole EU within a reasonable period,” it was lawful to move ahead without the two dissenting nations, who had objected to the plan largely over language concerns.