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Date	Title	Extract
Thursday, 02.02.2012	New fact sheet on "How to manage IP in FP7 during the negotiations stage"	We are pleased to announce that the European IPR Helpdesk has published a fact sheet on ‘How to manage IP in FP7 during the negotiations stage’, whose aim is to highlight the IP-related issues consortia need to consider during the negotiations with the European Commission, which...
Thursday, 02.02.2012	OHIM helps you finding a way in the classification of your goods and/or services	Deciding to which goods and/or services your trade marks should be used in an application for a Community Trade Mark is often not easy. However, the European IPR Helpdesk has learned that the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) offers several tools to help you in this...
Tuesday, 31.01.2012	U.S. counterfeit seizure report 2011	The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have recently issued the Fiscal Year 2011 Seizure Statistics. The report focuses on the trade in counterfeit and pirated goods and shows that during fiscal year 2011 there has been a 24% increase of...
Tuesday, 31.01.2012	New fact sheet on “IP specificities in research for the benefit of SMEs”	We are pleased to inform you that the European IPR Helpdesk has produced a new fact sheet related to the specific IP provisions regulating the ‘Research for the benefit of SMEs” actions. This specific funding scheme has been set up by the European Commission within the Capacities programme...
Tuesday, 31.01.2012	New fact sheet on “IP issues in brokerage events”	We are pleased to inform you that the European IPR Helpdesk has issued a new fact sheet with the intention of providing an overview of the main IP issues that should be considered when participating in a brokerage event. These events are an easy, cheap and quick way for companies’...
Tuesday, 31.01.2012	Last ACTA episode: what’s next?	On January 26, 2012 the EU and the representatives of 22 EU Member States signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, known as “ACTA”, in Tokyo. This agreement needs to be signed and ratified by the EU and by all the 27 Member States since it contains criminal enforcement provisions, an area...
Thursday, 26.01.2012	EC proposal for reforming data protection rules in the EU	The European Commission has proposed a comprehensive reform of the EU's 1995 data protection rules to strengthen online privacy rights and boost Europe's digital economy. The 27 EU Member States have implemented the 1995 rules differently, resulting in divergences in enforcement. A single law...
Thursday, 26.01.2012	Patent thickets, patent fees and patent quality at the EPO	The European Patent Office (EPO) has recently set up its Economic and Scientific Advisory Board to address important patent-related economic and social issues in a more selective and dedicated way. The newly appointed Board has chosen to address its priorities for investigation on the following...
Thursday, 26.01.2012	The ICC Intellectual Property roadmap	The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has launched the 11th edition of its flagship intellectual property (IP) publication ICC Intellectual Property Roadmap: Current and Emerging Issues for Business and Policymakers. This Roadmap is a useful reference tool to help business, policy...
Tuesday, 24.01.2012	The TTO, a university engine transforming science in innovation	The League of European Research Universities (LERU) has published a new advice paper: The TTO, a university engine transforming science in innovation. In this paper, LERU highlights ten "critical success factors that enable the deployment of...
Tuesday, 24.01.2012	Report from the Commission on the Implementation and Effect of the Resale Right Directive	The Resale Right Directive (2001/84/EC) aims at ensuring an harmonised application in the EU of the resale right, i.e., the right which enables authors to receive...
Thursday, 19.01.2012	New patent records at EPO	In 2011, despite the economic and financial crisis, the European Patent Office (EPO) saw incoming patent applications 3% up on the 2010 and granted a 7% more patents than in 2010. As regards the filings' geographical origin, the main trends observed in recent years continue. First, a clear...
Thursday, 19.01.2012	European IPR Helpdesk Bulletin Issue (4)	We are pleased to inform that the forth issue of the European IPR Helpdesk Bulletin has been released and is now available on-line. This first number of 2012 features a brief analysis of the patent reform recently passed in the U.S. with the intention to point out whether the bill could be...
Tuesday, 17.01.2012	Study on Trade Secrets and Parasitic Copying (Look-alikes) in the EU	Last week, the European Commission published a Study on Trade Secrets and Parasitic Copying (Look-alikes). This study was undertaken with the purpose to clarify the legal framework and common practices on these areas in the 27 Member States of the European Union. According to the...
Tuesday, 17.01.2012	Webinars to be continued: new Curriculum for first quarter of 2012 online	After the successful launch of the first series of web-based training sessions last year, we will continue to provide even more webinars in 2012. However, based on our experience and learning from the first webinar phase, we have introduced some modifications...
Thursday, 12.01.2012	UK study on digital copyright exchange	The UK government has given its go-ahead for an independent feasibility study on developing a Digital Copyright Exchange in the United Kingdom so as to respond to the assertions made in a preceding study by Professor Ian Hargreaves. The independent study is being carried out in two parts....
Tuesday, 10.01.2012	How to monitor asian patent databases without knowledge of the languages	The EPO provides several documents with information to assist those interested in searching Asian patent databases without knowledge of the languages. In particular, the EPO provides many step-by-step guides to search Taiwanese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Indian databases. Recently, one...
Thursday, 05.01.2012	Strengthening IPR enforcement on the internet	In a recent forum on IPR enforcement in the digital era, organised by Marielle Gallo, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), policymakers and stakeholders discussed the way forward to a better protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on the net. Some facts and figures showed that...
Thursday, 05.01.2012	COSME for business competitiveness and SMEs	Within the framework of Horizon 2020, a new financial support programme has been proposed by the European Commission in order to boost entrepreneurship around Europe. COSME (Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs) is a funding instrument, which will largely continue the...
Thursday, 05.01.2012	New EU patent system favourable to SMEs	According to EUROCHAMBRES, the European association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the new patent system will prove more efficient than the current patchwork of national regimes and will significantly increase access to patents for SMEs. It will also ensure more comprehensive protection...

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