Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-12-11-Speech-2-022-000"
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"Mr President, this is yet another unwarranted and unnecessary transfer of sovereignty from the nation state to the European Union. There is a highly respected patent court in the UK which is currently worth something like GBP 750 million per annum and this is now in danger.
Patent specialists in the UK strongly contend that there is no demand in the UK for this change. There are serious concerns about judicial appointments to the new court and therefore about the quality of the decisions that will be made. Instead of a meritocratic appointment system, it seems that subscribing Member States will be entitled to a judge. Many of the smaller countries have tiny patent jurisdictions, few patent judges and few legal practitioners in this field from whom to choose judges.
As with so much legislation from this place, this is being done in favour of very large companies at the expense of small and medium-sized businesses. SMEs and individuals will be seriously disadvantaged in protecting their innovations, by reason of cost and inconvenience, bearing in mind that they will have to go to France and Germany to protect their work rather than to local courts.
We are told that there will be cost savings, but that is not the opinion of experts. One estimate is that litigation costs will increase by a factor of three. UK Independence Party MEPs will vote against this measure."@en1
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"( The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question under Rule 149(8))"1
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