What we are dealing with here is a law on patents.

To get more revenues, in 1878 he began to work on new patents.

The existing law on patents has nothing to do with this.

Commissioner, I mainly wanted to talk about the last point on patents.

What is the situation, for example, with our laws on intellectual property and patents?

Since 2011 he has also written a weekly column on technology and patents.

We still lack intellectual property rights and Europe has no rules on patents.

That of course didn't stop them from claiming they invented it on their patent.

Are you doing anything to make the laws on intellectual property and patents more flexible?

In 1855-56 he was chairman of the Committee on Patents.