Brevet unitaire

But Member States of the EU haven't managed to reach an agreement about the language that should be used for such a unitary patent, whereas this issue resuires unanimity. So it has been decide to use a procedure called “enhanced cooperation” where an EU regulation has to be voted by the European Parliament and by coutries of the Council which are participating to this enhanced cooperation. In the case of the unitary patent, all EU countries are participating but Spain and Italy.