Those European patent court proposals: the CIPA response

The IPKat received a press release earlier this week which he has only just got around to reading. It's from the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys ( CIPA ) and was issued in response to a newspaper report that EU industry ministers had agreed formally to ask the European Court of Justice for its opinion on a potential overhaul of patent litigation in Europe (on which see here ). The press release goes as follows: "According to Vicki Salmon, chairman of CIPA’s litigation committee, the