"France is not enforcing European law as it should on free movement, so we are launching an infringement process against France," Ms Reding told France 24 television.
The UK is at stage two of a six-stage infringement process, EU Environment Commissioner Janez Potocnik told reporters in London on Thursday.
The latest amendments to the Patents Act 1970 are then described, including the harmonisation of the patent term, redefinition of patentable subject matter, matters concerning deposits of biological materials, oppositions, revocations, the working of patents, compulsory licences, and the reversal of the burden of proof in infringement of process patents.
In a statement on its Web site, the government of the Kurdistan region described the arrest as a "gross violation and a dangerous infringement of the political process, and a sign that the democratic process in the country is being undermined".
It could potentially block and censor sites for alleged copyright infringement without full due process.
It also accuses them of committing several offenses as part of the ticket-buying process, including copyright infringement and the assumption of false identities.
Among the reform proposals are changes that would favor the first person to file a patent rather than the first person to invent the device; limits on the damages for patent infringement; and an additional review process for patents.
That solution, as he had sketched out in a press conference Tuesday together with Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif ., woulD-Calif .reate a complaint process for copyright infringement similar to the International Trade Commission's patent infringement investigation system.
The injunction was issued on Tuesday by Judge Virginia Phillips, of the Federal District Court in central California, who had ruled that "don't ask, don't tell" was an unconstitutional infringement on the rights of due process and free speech.
"The process was always intended to be that the infringement notice was delivered at the end of the process and I'm sure that police will change that very minor detail appropriately," Elferink said.
