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N. 33, May - June 2007
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Ensuring fair trade in ideas
Peter Mandelson |
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| One of the reasons Europe has maintained its global market share
over the last decade is the ability of EU companies to sell products at premium
price. Innovation, invention and creativity are the added value. That’s
our comparative advantage. It lies behind every European premium innovative
product, whether it’s a fashion shoe, a solar panel using new
environmental technology, a semiconductor or even Champagne. ... |
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 | IP & RTD: Articles
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Community Trade Mark Fees at the OHIM – An Initiative
for Revision
Mark Kennedy |
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| When the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market appeared on
the international trade mark scene in 1994, the Community trade mark right it
would launch into the IP world only two years later was very much an unknown
force. With thirteen trade mark protection systems already operating in the
European Union of that day, there was... |
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DESCA The Simplified FP7 Model Consortium Agreement
Anne Müngersdorff |
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| DESCA (DEvelopment of a Simplified
Consortium Agreement for FP7) is
a comprehensive, modular consortium agreement for the Seventh Framework
Programme (FP7). DESCA was initiated by a multinational core group: ANRT, the
French national association of technical research; the German CA-Team,
represented by the Helmholtz Association and... |
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How can intellectual property be successfully
promoted?
Serge Quazzotti |
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| Nowadays, competitive advantages are based on knowledge and other
intangible assets. Innovation has become open, projects are performed in
networks and often involve multiple participants. In view of these evolutions,
experts and decision-makers agree on the importance of intellectual property
and the necessity for economic and innovation... |
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Switzerland: Because small is beautiful…
Hermann Padovani |
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| In recent years, this little country, located physically in the
heart of Europe but not at its political heart, proved to be a great source of
ideas turned into patents and trade marks. According to the last IFPI report
for the period 2005-2006, the number of filings reached a level so high as to
induce the authorities (for the sixth... |
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