In the current Information Society, where knowledge and new
technologies have become of particular importance in a process of continuous
change, the Spanish Patents and Trademarks Office (SPTO) is a extraordinary
witness and, at the same time, one of the main figures in this technological
change...
The Commission has put specific emphasis on the creation of a
Knowledge Based Society as defined by the Barcelona Declaration in 2002 and
later confirmed and re-launched by the European Council in March 2005. This is
seen as part of the effort to reach the Barcelona Declaration goals of 3% of
GDP investment in R&D throughout the EU with...
In a previous article, we looked at the background of the various Model
Consortium Agreements that are in use during FP6. In this article, we will look in more detail at how
different models deal with the important matter of decision-making within the
Consortium...
Since 2002, the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
(OHIM) has placed great emphasis on the need to provide its users with fast,
efficient and up-to-date online tools to search for information and carry out
procedures...
Protection of industrial property in the Czech Republic has a long
tradition that is based on the continental system of protection of intangible
property represented by legal regulations of the former Austro-Hungarian
Monarchy and Czechoslovakia. In 1919, a Patent Office and Patent Court were
established in Prague and important laws...
