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N. 10, Aug.-Sept. 2003
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 | Editorial
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| SPREADING VALUE
Magda di Carli |
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| Through the Sixth Research Framework Programme and its predecessors, the European Union supports thousands of research projects. Each of these projects involves partners from three or more countries. Since the projects are funded with public money, the partners have an obligation to exploit their results - either themselves or by licensing to other organisations. As Europe is less successful at converting research results into new products and processes than the USA or Japan, the Commission has placed ever-increasing importance on the exploitation of results from EU programmes... |
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 | IP & RTD: Articles
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| Can a patent make you rich?
Uffe Bundgaard-Jørgensen, PhD, |
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| Too many entrepreneurs and researchers believe that having a patent issued is like having your own private goldmine. Nothing could be more wrong. The only thing which is 100 % sure if a person wishes to patent an invention, is that it will cost a lot of money and that the patent description will disclose detailed information about the invention to the... |
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| Intellectual property and technology transfer from the European Research policy perspective
Ir. Denis Dambois |
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| The importance of intellectual property and technology transfer issues in policies to promote research and innovation - and more broadly the knowledge-based economy - is growing and now widely recognised. These issues have gained prominence and are being addressed more strategically as an important dimension of European research policy. In 2000, the... |
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| Publish first, apply later? - Introducing a grace period in European Patent Law
Michael Veddern |
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| Every researcher's primary aim is to increase scientific knowledge. Therefore, research work and the publication of research results are the key elements of his scientific activities. Publications in particular form the basis for the evaluation and distribution of the knowledge generated and are, furthermore, decisive in the academic career of the researcher... |
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| Food Processing as an Integral Part of a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO)
Professor Michael Blakeney |
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| Two recent decisions of the ECJ: Consorzio del Prosciutto di Parma and Salumificio S. Rita SpA v. Asda Stores Ltd and Hygrade Foods Ltd, Case C-108/01 and Ravi SARL v Bellon Import SARL Case C-469/00, both rendered on 20th May 2003, addressed the issue of food preparation as part of a PDO... |
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 | IP & RTD in practice
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| Patent of the month |
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| . While the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 25 million lives were saved by DDT during its period of use, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences is even more enthusiastic, calculating that 500 million human deaths have been prevented, and even stating that "… to only a few chemicals does man owe as great debt as to DDT…". Only a few chemicals... |
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| The esp@cenet quiz is an exercise proposed to our readers. Its aim is to show that patent searching can be an exciting quest, yielding relevant results in almost all technical fields. ... |
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