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"The existence of patents prevents the unhindered utilisation of every invention which appears to have been devised before. On the one hand, it is beneficial for intellectual property to be protected from profiteers who want to make a quick profit using what has cost others years of effort. On the other hand, patents mean that countries in the developing world are not allowed to produce any medicines themselves to control common tropical diseases and that genetically manipulated plants or animals are introduced onto the market on which inventors’ heirs can raise some kind of tax. Countries with a technological and economic disadvantage can most effectively overcome this disadvantage by ignoring the existence of patent rights. In addition to national patent schemes, the pursuit of a world patent and the existence of a European Patent Bureau which is not subordinate to the EU, there has been talk of a Community patent, which is still controversial within the European Council, for the past 40 years. And, in the final analysis, this proposal only pertains to the languages to be used, with English, French, German, Spanish and Italian being granted a privileged position compared to other official language of the current and future EU Member States. So also in relation to 22 million Dutch speakers and, soon, 40 million Poles. This proposal is thus in all respects not ready for any decision to be taken on it, as a result of which I shall be voting against."@en1
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