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  N. 16, Aug.-Sept.  2004  

Editorial 
The CORDIS Innovation Portal: a tool to facilitate the innovation process
Kurt König
 
Kurt König has been in charge of the Community Research and Development Information Service (www.cordis.lu) since January 2000. Prior to this appointment, as Head of Unit "Promotion of innovation: training, research, take-up of technology, sub-contracting (DGXXIII)", he was in charge of the competitiveness of enterprises and namely Small and Medium-Size Enterprises (SMEs) under the 3rd multi-annual programme in favour of SMEs...
 
IP & RTD: Articles 
 
  The Importance of Intellectual Property Clauses in the Consortium Agreements under the Sixth Framework Programme
Lyasid HAMMOUD
 
Under the Sixth Framework Programme, the consortium agreement is the essential element for organising the scientific project and regulating the period after the end of the project. In light of this fact, working groups have been set up to create models and make these available to the scientific community. ...
 
 
  How to draw up a convincing plan for the use and dissemination of knowledge
Marie-Louise Hoffmann
 
By means of different 'innovation-related activities', including developing a plan on intended protection, use and, where appropriate, dissemination of knowledge under the 6th Framework Program (FP6), participants in indirect measures are obliged to promote the use and dissemination of the research results. This applies to each phase of the project,...
 
  The Enforcement Directive 2004/48/EC - A further step in the harmonisation of IP laws in Europe
Michael Veddern
 
Directive 2004/48/EC on measures and procedures to ensure the enforcement of intellectual property rights, adopted on 29 April 2004, regulates the measures, procedures and remedies which can be ordered by the competent judicial authorities in case of an IP infringement at the request of an entitled party. In contrast to previous European legal norms...
 
 
  The Protection of Technical Measures under Copyright
Isabelle Vereecken
 
The rise of new technologies and, in general, of new media and means of electronic communications, has led to an important increase in the risk of intellectual property infringement, especially copyright. Indeed, computers greatly facilitate the reproduction and dissemination of works on a large scale. The days when copying a song necessarily implied...
 
IP & RTD in practice 
 
  Patent of the month
 
Self-cleaning glass. We've all had the bad experience, after conscientiously cleaning the windows of our house, of seeing all our efforts put to waste by the rain that perniciously starts to fall just as we finish cleaning… But, we have some good news: thanks to a new, revolutionary self-cleaning glass, you need never fear the rain again! Quite the...
 
 
  esp@cenet Quiz
 
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...
 
  IP eModules
 
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News 
 
  Worldwide agreement between Microsoft and Lindows as regards their trademark disputes
 
 
  UK. Court rules against protection of colours under design law
 
  EU. Consultation on the Commission's Communication on the future EU research policy
 
 
  UK. Modifications to the UK Patents Act 1977
 
  UK. First licence to create human embryonic stem cells
 
 
  US. Two file-sharing software distributors judged not responsible for copyright infringement
 
  EU. Commission Communication on the FP6 new instruments
 
 
  China. New law on electronic signature adopted
 
  EU. Proposal of modification of the Directive on the legal protection of designs
 
 
 
  The debate around software patents is heating up
 
 
Events 
 
  Bonn (Germany), 20-21 October 2004: Seminars on the FP6
 
 
 
  Prague (Czech Republic), 25-27 October 2004: EPIDOS 2004
 
 
Last updates 
  Last updates of the IPR-Helpdesk Web site
 
The IPR-Helpdesk team is very pleased to inform you that since the last issue of the IPR-Bulletin, new documents have been posted on our Web site...

 
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