Comments on: Europe Achieves Historic Agreement on Unitary Patent

By: Stan E. Delo

Stan E. Delo — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:35:54 +0000

Thanks for your considered and informed opinion Max. I feel somewhat the same about my erstwhile Congressfolks, who will be long gone before the real effects of the America Invents Act become painfully apparent. One aspect of the AIA that was oddly totally overlooked, was how much it was going to cost the practitioners to adapt to such a radical change in patent law. I heard one estimate of about a half billion or so here in the US, which will have to be paid for somehow.

By: MaxDrei

MaxDrei — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:51:42 +0000

Stan, when the Euro’s have implemented this stuff, and when you have got through to issuance of something out of the EPO, then it might have an effect on your costs.

The Euro pols around today boldly assert that they are reducing costs for small industry. But Europe’s patent practitioners are confidently asserting that it will explode costs for small industry. We (the practitioners) will be able to tell you more in about ten years from now. By then, the pols of today will have long since departed the scene of their mischief.

By: Stan E. Delo

Stan E. Delo — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:42:12 +0000

Does anyone have any ideas about how this might affect the cost of PCT filings leading to perhaps two foreign national stage decisions? In my case all of the three possible nations that may be of interest to me use the English language, so translation issues will be minimal I presume. In the case of filing in countries using other languages, might this reduce the need to hire practitioners in the elected countries?

Stan~