The EU will end up with almost exactly the same problem - just at a slower pace. The only difference after 1-Jan-2014 will be the lack of "legal arbitrage" acr

The EU will end up with almost exactly the same problem - just at a slower pace. The only difference after 1-Jan-2014 will be the lack of "legal arbitrage" across states which makes a mockery of many laws in the US. But legal arbitrage is trivially damaging compared to the new EU Unified Patent court ruled by patent law experts (which creates an incentive to expand their powers), the ability to file software/mathematical patents and the faster Unified Patent application process.