You bring your smart invention. We’ll make it sparkle 💡

The Unitary Patent system is live and ready to boost innovation across .

Innovators can now benefit from a one-stop shop for the registration and enforcement of in Europe.

This means lower costs, less paperwork and reduced red tape.

With no added formalities, the Unitary Patent will be effective in 17 countries, cutting the renewal fees over 10 years from around €29,000 to less than €5,000.

➡ europa.eu/!vT7CYN

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@EU_Commission Suppose I don’t want to exploit my idea for financial gain. #FreeSoftware style, I would like the patent to explicitly allow others to use it. But exceptionally, I would like to bar certain unethical corps whome I boycott from benefitting from the otherwise open patent. What are the options? $5k is unreasonable for this scenario since I would not be profitting from it. #askFedi

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@EU_Commission That's a great thing, the EU has such a huge potential in tech and research so we must do everything we can to bolster that in our Europe so that the future isn't written without us but WITH us!

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Kiran (Gopiandcode)

@EU_Commission I have to ask... what about patent trolls?

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Café-Junkie

@EU_Commission
DE:
Sind Software- und Trivial-Patente garantiert ausgeschlossen?

EN:
Are software and trivial patents guaranteed to be excluded?

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FJW

@EU_Commission The real inovation-boost would realistically be to get rid of patents.

At the absolute minimum in anything remotely IT-related.

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