Translation of "Ordre des Conseils en Brevets " (French → English) :

whereas on 4 December 2009 the Council adopted conclusions on the main features of the future patent system based on two pillars: (i) the creation of a unified patent litigation system, and (ii) the creation of an EU patent – a legal instrument for granting patents valid across the EU as a whole; whereas the Council considered that those conclusions should form part of the overall final agreement on a package of measures for an Enhanced Patent System in Europe comprising the creation of a European and EU Patents Court (EEUPC), an EU patent, including the separate regulation on the translation arrangements, an Enhanced Partnership betwee ...[+++]n the European Patent Office and central industrial property offices of Member States and, to the extent necessary, amendments to the European Patent Convention,

Compensation should reward quality and achievement in the performance of all tasks, including a share of income from research contracts, consultancies, patents, etc.

It is essential that the overall cost of a Community patent should be in the same order of magnitude as that associated with patents granted by the Community's main trading partners, or even be more attractive.

Although the Munich Convention creates a single system for granting patents, there is still no Community patent belonging to the Community legal order.

- having recourse to selected patent agents advisers,

- an undertaking by the subcontractor to pass on to the contractor on a non-exclusive basis any technical improvements which he has made during the currency of the agreement, or, where a patentable invention has been discovered by the subcontractor, to grant non-exclusive licences in respect of inventions relating to improvements and new applications of the original invention to the contractor for the term of the patent held by the latter.