Law360, New York (June 29, 2012, 5:43 PM ET) -- Leaders of the European Union's member states reached what they called a "historic breakthrough" Friday in efforts to establish a single European patent system, striking a deal calling for the court that will hear patent cases to have divisions in Paris, London and Munich.
The location of the court had been a sticking point in the long-gestating plan for a single patent system, in which one patent would be valid throughout the EU, because leaders France, the U.K. and Germany all wanted to house the court....
Paris, London, Munich Will Share EU Patent Court
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