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N. 24, November - December 2005
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Intellectual Property, competition and the Lisbon
Agenda
Neelie Kroes |
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| During the Spring European Council in March 2004, the EU Heads of
Government, wishing to reinvigorate the Lisbon Strategy, placed enhanced
competition and innovation as clear aims on their agenda. These twin objectives
are believed to be key to increasing competitiveness and economic growth in the
EU... |
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Value generation by the Innovation Relay Centre (IRC)
network
Dr Gudrun Rumpf |
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| In Europe, new technologies are often too slow to reach the
companies that could exploit them in the marketplace. The developer of a
technology and its potential users may be based in different countries, and
have no way of finding out about one another. For the two companies, this
represents a missed opportunity for improved competitiveness... |
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IP Model Consortium Agreements in FP6
Lotte Jaspers and Mette Skraastad, Yellow Research |
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| The advent of the 6th Framework Programme caused a small revolution
in research administration offices all over Europe. For the first time, in the
case of the new Integrated Projects, it became mandatory to put a Consortium
Agreement (CA) in place alongside the contract with the European
Commission. ... |
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7 December 2005: Launch of the .eu domain name
Eli Salis - Begoña Uriarte Valiente |
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| In 2004, in implementation of Regulation EC/733/2002 of the European
Parliament and the Council on
the ".eu" top-level domain, the Commission adopted Regulation
874/2004 setting out the rules
applicable to the registration of ".eu" domain names... |
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IGLO, Informal Group of RTD Liaison Offices
Rodolfo Piedra |
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| IGLO is an informal association of Brussels-based non-profit R&D
Liaison Offices. The aim of IGLO is to facilitate and enhance the interaction,
information exchange and co-operation between Members of IGLO, their national
research systems and the European institutions on issues related to EU RTD, in
particular the Framework Programm... |
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 | IP & RTD in practice
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| Patent of the month |
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| Scientists at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have
invented a technology that is a step towards the idea of a hydrogen-based
economy: a hydrogen tablet. ... |
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| IP eModules |
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| Non-Patent literature as a source of prior
art... |
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| RTD eModules |
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| This story began at an IPR-Helpdesk presentation on the intellectual
property rights (IPR) regime under the Sixth Framework Programme given in April
2005. One of the attendees, a representative of a large collaborative EU-funded
project in the biotechnology sector, approached the IPR-Helpdesk presenter. The
attendee was reassured that... |
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