Science|Business
Policy Analysis: IP, Policy
Published: 21 May 2009
Is the demand for patents stifling reform?

paul meller, reporter

Even as campaigners step up their demands for patent reform, patent offices themselves are being buried under a deluge of applications.

Alison Brimelow, EPO president

It may seem an odd time to be discussing the creation of a global patent system. Gardens around the offices of the Munich-based European Patent Office were besieged by pigs and tractors recently, as part of a demonstration against biotech patents.

Meanwhile, campaigners against the introduction of patents on pure software are starting to crank up their lobbying ahead of an enlarged board of appeal...

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Related subjects: Community patent, EPO, European Union, Intellectual property, Patents

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