Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 November 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals
2:40 pm
Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
From a business perspective this would be a huge advantage to the major multinational companies here, and particularly to some of our smaller domestic companies engaged in very important research. The bigger ones can cope with the additional expense involved but the smaller ones being able to register a patent in one location, which applies across 25 European Union countries, is very advantageous.
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