Translation of "Patentkosten" in English

How would the costs of obtaining patent protection change with today's proposal?

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However, the cost of patents should be reduced to facilitate the spread of innovation.

The high costs of patents in Europe, you say, might possibly explain this.

On 13 April 2011, we presented two legislative proposals on IPR, under enhanced cooperation, which will reduce the cost of patents by up to 80%.

Manufacturers and inventors are calling for the cost of the patent to be reduced, so that the patent can be competitive. They also want the respect of legal certainty to be guaranteed with the greatest fairness possible.

Translation costs push up the price of the patent disproportionately, so that it will become too costly for European industry, the ultimate users.

Although the cost of patents may be low currently, it is important that unresolved questions relating to intellectual property rights do not hamper the spread of clean technologies and related services.

The Commission identified the cost of the patent in Europe as one of the major obstacles to the optimum use of the system, in particular for SMEs.

Companies are still faced with far greater patenting costs in the EU than in the USA.

A European patent system should be introduced because at present patent costs are higher in Europe than in competitor countries.

The inter-institutional negotiation on the Community Patent and the patent litigation system should be finalised on a priority basis in order to reduce patenting costs, provide more legal certainty, and make patents more accessible for SMEs.

The creation of the EU Patent and European and EU Patents Court would reduce patenting costs, provide more legal certainty, and make patents more accessible for SMEs.

Apart from the aid for R & D, the proposal also foresees exempting, under certain conditions, aid for technical feasibility studies and aid for patenting costs from the notification obligation.

The Regulation will, for instance, introduce some improvements compared with the European patent as regards the cost of the patent, translations and the system of appeals to courts of law.

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.

The proposed legislative package will benefit all European companies by reducing patenting costs in Europe by up to 80 %.

The costs for the patents as presented under point 7 above are the lawyers' fees for the notification of the patents linked to the project.

Translation costs, on the other hand, come in for even more criticism because they account for around 40 per cent of the cost of a pat­ent and yet are often considered next to useless.

Attention is also focused on helping ideas to get quickly to market, by removing bottlenecks like expensive patenting, market fragmentation, slow standard-setting and skill shortages.

In an effort to ensure a comprehensiveapproach to the terms of the regulation,the Commission will launch a consultation with Member States.

Under the basic Council Directive of 19 December 1972 the struct ure of excise duties on cigarettes shall be harmonized in several stages and the transition from one stage of harmonization to the next shall be decided on by the Council on a proposal from the Commission, taking into account the effects produced during the stage in progress by the measures introduced by the Member States.

During the quarter, Burcon expensed about $266,000 (2011 - $181,000, net of $179,000 capitalized to deferred development costs) of patent costs.

So all patent holders should commit ex-ante that the aggregate licensing cost for all patents should be reasonable.