In March 2011, 25 out of the 27 EU member states (excluding Spain and Italy) finally agreed to enhanced cooperation in order to resolve the language regime and move towards the creation of a unified patent protection system.
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10 December 2012 Benoît Battistelli, president of the European Patent Office (EPO), is confident that an agreement on the so-called Unitary Patent is imminent, and that the project will be a boon to the European intellectual property system.