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"Mr President, I, like other colleagues in the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market, would like to congratulate our ex-chairman Mrs Palacio Vallelersundi, on all her work on this dossier. It has been a real labour of Hercules but, despite that, I fear she has not, in the view of the British Conservatives, been able satisfactorily to resolve the issues that have been so vigorously debated in the Legal Affairs Committee. However, I should emphasise that I do not think that is any reflection on her. Rather it seems to me that, as has already been mentioned by a number of other speakers, there has been a series of real conundrums – serious issues – at the heart of this proposal. In particular, it indicates the more or less complete impossibility of reconciling our language policy with the needs of those who use and work with patents. I suspect that in microcosm this may be one of a much larger series of problems that we shall be experiencing in the Union in the not-too-distant future.
In my view, there is no point in having a Community patent, which could be a very useful development in intellectual property law, if those who use and work with patents find it no help. I am told by industry that the Commission's proposals could be helpful but what Parliament is proposing will not be.
Since this is not a codecision matter, the best thing Parliament can do is to give an opinion as required and then leave matters to the Council to see if it can succeed where we have failed.
I am the first to confess that I do not think this is a very glorious suggestion but it is a pragmatic one. I believe it is the correct course of action in the circumstance in which we now find ourselves.
Finally, just like my colleague Mr Lehne, I have another meeting and I hope you will bestow your blessing on my leaving as you did on his."@en1
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