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"Mr Baldassarre, I should like to start by extending my personal thanks, publicly and before your fellow Members, for your work as rapporteur on this important text.
At my hearing before this House on 13 January 2010, I expressed my ambition to be the last Commissioner to mention the patent. That is why I am passionately committed to this proposal, which now has the support of 25 Member States. I hope that Italy and Spain will soon join us in supporting this proposal, which will help bring the price of the EU patent down to a competitive level.
Mr Baldassarre, you mentioned small and medium-sized enterprises and young inventors. They are the ones for whom this patent, this single protection right, must be established first and foremost. I have met small and medium-sized enterprises and young inventors who, because of the high expense, do not protect their work, except for in two or three countries. This allows counterfeit products, which, in some cases, pose a risk to health and to the economy, to enter the single market by other means.
Therefore, we are aware of what is at stake, and that is why we want to make a success of the legislative process under way, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises, which have a right to this competitive advantage.
The first benefit for small and medium-sized enterprises, Mr Baldassarre, would be a reduction in the currently very high cost of the patent, for them as well as all the others who are the main casualties of the current situation.
Spurred on by you, Parliament has come up with another solution which would further benefit small and medium-sized enterprises. It would enable extra reimbursements to be granted to these enterprises for the translation costs arising from the patent process. I consider this to be a good proposal, which would be in line with the policy that we want to implement concerning the simplification of the patent system, the reduction of costs and the deals that we want to introduce across the board for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Mr Tajani and I are, as you know, working on taking things further, as some national governments have done, with a national fund for patents, which could become a European fund. Personally, I think it is a good idea to go further, to go beyond the reimbursement of registration fees and translation costs by setting up a European fund. However, we need to explore this idea in the context of the next financial perspective."@en1
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