Summit gives birth to common EU patent

This article describes the agreement reached among European leaders on June 29, 2012. France, Germany, and the UK splits their differences by making Paris the headquarters of the new Unitary Patent Court with about 60% of the workload. London will have a satellite office for handling patents for pharmaceuticals and life sciences industries – about 30% of the work; the remaining work will be handled by a satellite office in Munich that will also handle administrative work for patent appeals.

(Copyright restrictions discourage any copy and paste of the article's content.)

Edit (DD): Alternative sources of information... Patent Docs and IP Kat. Thanks Tom!