Saving with EU patent
If Italy will join the EU patent there will be 12 million a year in savings for the Italian companies: 6 million will come from not having to deposit the same patent twice, in Italy and in the rest of Europe , as many from being able to make use of to a single court to avoid parallel litigation .
The business and administrative in Milan calls for Italy to adhere, time is right, the single European patent, or the ability to protect, with a single dossier submitted to the EPO (the office with European headquarters in Monaco of Bavaria), their inventions in all EU countries without having to obtain many individual national awards .
The savings, according to the EU Commission, should carry the groceries from the current 36 thousand euro to the patent, a little less than 5 thousand. Italy and Spain have said no because their languages were not included in the three official for the patent (English, French and German). But the appeal to the EU Court was dismissed .
In 2012 in Italy were filed 9,217 patent applications, Lombardia is the first region with 2,680 stores, 29% of the total. Emilia Romagna, with 1,392 stores, is in second place. Veneto and Piemonte follow in short distance with, respectively, 1,313 and 1,214 stores.
