The Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and
Designs) has recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. The OHIM, a Community
agency specialising in the registration of intellectual property rights, began
its activities in 1994. I would like to mention two facts which most stand out
in my mind from these ten years. On the one hand, the OHIM has received 425,000
Community trade mark applications, confirming that this intellectual property
right is an essential element of the competition system that the European Union
Treaty aims to establish and maintain. On the other hand, nearly 100,000
Community...
If it were really as simple as the title
suggests, the Patent Centre wouldn't be necessary. But whoever wants to make
money from their inventions needs technical support. This is valid for
universities as well as for other research institutions, SMEs, and private
inventors. ...
As each subsequent Framework Programme (FP) becomes more complex and
ambitious, academic participants are responsible for taking a greater and more
proactive interest in safeguarding their role and interests in EU-funded
collaborative research projects. However, at the same time as protecting
effective research collaboration and knowledge...
The reform of Spanish industrial design law to bring it into line
with Directive 98/71/EC was carried out by Law 20/2003 of 7 July on the Legal
Protection of Industrial Designs (IDL) (Official State Journal no 162 of 8
July). The law entered into force on 9 July 2003, except for the procedural
rules, which came into force on 8 July 2004...
EU research funding endeavours to foster innovation across Europe by
bringing together high-potential collaborators from different countries and
research backgrounds for joint RTD projects. The major funding scheme, the 6th
Framework Programme (FP6), focuses on support based around specific research
themes...
