Plan for European patent court may fail, says EU Commissioner
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Bickering over details to blame The EU Internal Markets Commissioner has warned that Europe is about to miss out on a chance to forge a pan-European patent disputes forum because of long-standing international bickering on what a system might look like.â¦
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BRUSSELS Europe&#39;s efforts to become the world&#39;s most competitive economy have failed, and the European social model faces collapse unless the Continent&#39;s governments stimulate growth and create more jobs, according to a report published Wednesday.
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Â· Some states 'in denial' over constitution  Â· Barroso rejects Ã  la carte Europe of exemptions
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The European Commission will take Britain to court for failing to provide a sufficient plan for cleaning up its Sellafield nuclear plant and denying Commission inspectors access to the site.
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Hotly-debated plans to allow the patenting of computer-based inventions in the European Union hit a fresh snag on Monday, EU officials said, after concerns by the Polish government.
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LUXEMBOURG - The judge deciding whether Microsoft Corp. must comply with the European Commission's remedies for the company's antitrust violations questioned Friday whether the steps ordered by the Commission will effectively curb Microsoft's power.
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The judge in Microsoft's appeal of the antitrust measures imposed by the European Commission questioned the wisdom of those moves as the hearing wound up.
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Last week's ruling by the European Court of First Instance (CFI) upholding the European Commission's 2004 finding against Microsoft and its subsequent Statement of Objections, may open the door for the EC to take unprecedented action. Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes stated she's open to suggestion, and today one response came from the respected Brussels-based Globalisation Institute think tank: Force manufacturers by law to sell PCs without operating systems pre-installed or bundled.
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The EU has again failed to ratify the software patent directive after a crucial last-minute intervention, and opponents of software patents are celebrating.
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WIPO 'not flexible enough' The European Commission wants to create a new layer of intellectual property protections because it says existing structures such as WIPO are not flexible enough.â¦
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The European Union's vision of building a hi-tech economy is under threat, according to a European Commission report.
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MEPs still mulling it over The European Parliament has once again postponed the vote on the latest version of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) directive. This time, the delay is to "find a final compromise" on the definition of what will consitute "commercial scale" infringement under the new proposals.â¦
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All change, please New head of the European Patent Office (EPO), Alison Brimelow, has signalled her intentions early, calling a public meeting to discuss the policy vacuum left by the rejection of the Directive on Computer Implemented Inventions.â¦
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A top European Union judge  challenged the EU executive's reasoning in its antitrust court  battle with Microsoft Corp. on Friday, questioning why it  opposed the U.S. software giant's setting industry standards.
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European Union efforts to abolish barriers against hostile takeovers within the 27-nation community have failed, the European Commission will warn in a report out on Tuesday, the Financial Times said.
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The world&#39;s software giant Microsoft Corp. said it would comply with the European Commission (EC) &#39;s orders if it fails this week to persuade the European Court of Justice to suspend the EC&#39;s decision.
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The European Union&#039;s Competition  Commissioner Neelie Kroes said on Thursday she could see no  alternative to fining U.S. software giant Microsoft   for breaching the bloc&#039;s antitrust rules.