Comment Re:The decision seems already made (Score 2, Informative) 226
Well, I wouldn't say that the decision is going to go just as some would have it. There is the problem of potential dissention from member states. It would seem most importantly, the prickly British State!-)
Take a look at the independent consultation run in the UK and its very different conclusions (I would go so far as to say much more sensible). If harmonisation were to be called for, Britain could create a stushio about it and kill it yet.
http://www.patent.gov.uk/about/consultations/conc
