Something funny has happened on the way to new patent legislation: For the first time, the US and EU systems are starting to converge. The new US patent law has moved towards a European, first-to-file approach to patent priority. The European Union is moving, ever so slowly, towards a unified patent system that operates in English with just a few other languages; and it is proposing a unified court system for IP.

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