Talk:Patent law of the European Union

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Looking for European patent cases and decisions and if the information is in English. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.246.22.251 (talk • contribs)

This may help: List of patent case law or http://www.curia.eu --Edcolins 18:20, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

The EU has no real patent law, SPCs are granted by national patent offices based on national patents. European patents are granted by the EPO - a body separate to the EU, I move to have this page deleted. FOARP (talk) 21:03, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. Yes, patent law at the EU level is decentralized at the national level and the EPO plays an important role in it. However, it is still an academic subject in its own right. Both the attempts to harmonize the law across the European Union (directives, regulations) and the attempts to create a community patent (although unsuccessful) are significant. It certainly deserves an article. I have added some references, but the article still needs some improvement indeed. --Edcolins (talk) 21:51, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Why then does it deserve a separate page to European patent law? Given the total failure to create a community patent why should it have a separate page? Over to you Jeremy . . . I mean Ed :) FOARP (talk) 00:01, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

We are not living on the same planet, sorry... Positive-outcome bias, that's it. Tempting trap. Patent law of the European Union is an academic topic, in spite of the failures.. I think it deserves an article, and (of course) improvement! But you want to merge this article in European patent law, that's what you want, do you? Cheers. --Edcolins (talk) 20:39, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Alright, but the title of page says 'Patent Law Of The EU', but then decribes no actual patent laws - certainly there are various directives on what laws member states should implement which have harmonised their patent laws in certain areas, but no EC patent law as such. It is true that national law can be interpreted in light of the directives and the CPC, but is this enough to create a patent law as such? And does EC patent law exist as a field of academic earch separate to European patent law? And if you're not Jeremy Phillips you write an awful lot like him! FOARP (talk) 16:33, 24 March 2008 (UTC)