Poland: ‘No to europatent’

Business leaders are pressuring the government to reject the single European patent, arguing that “solutions provided by the single patent scheme favour highly technologically developed countries”. Meanwhile for Poland, which has just started building a knowledge-based economy, the new single patent will be “very costly” and risky for the applicants. The campaign seems to be effective as “the government has begun hesitating” over whether to sign the single patent agreement.