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"I voted for the decision authorising enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection as I feel it is necessary to adopt measures to create a unitary EU patent.
According to a report produced in 2011 by Thomson Reuters entitled ‘Patented in China’, China is going to overtake Japan and the US in terms of numbers of patents. Indeed, China’s intention with the programme launched in 2006 was to become a country focused on innovation, and it managed to increase the number of patents by 14.1%, 33.55% and 15.9% compared to the US, EU and Japan respectively.
In the EU, the current patent system is fragmented and exorbitant with regard to translation requirements. The cost of an EU patent validated in 13 countries is as high as EUR 20 000, of which roughly EUR 14 000 are for translation costs alone. This makes a European patent 10 times more expensive than a US one. I think that authorising enhanced cooperation in the area of creating unitary patents can help develop a unitary patent which is attractive to users of the European patent system, offer intellectual property protection across the whole of the EU and remove the costs and complications with the aim of encouraging research, development and innovative SMEs."@en1
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