The attractiveness of the EU's system for of protecting innovation has not decreased - on the contrary, "Europe is a premier hub for innovation," according to the President of the European Patent Office (EPO), Benoît Battistelli. On 6 March, he presented the annual report by the intergovernmental organisation, which brings together 38 countries and which deals with the registration of European patents.
The constant increase in requests for patents from around the world (see Europolitics 4791) is confirmed in EPO's…