N. 37, January - March  2008  
Editorial 
IP Awareness and Enforcement: Modular Based Actions for SMEs, the new framework that brings together activities of the IPR-Helpdesk and 19 National Patent Offices
Manuel Palomar
 
Since November 2007 the IPR-Helpdesk has been an active partner in the newly created IP Awareness and Enforcement: Modular Based Actions for SMEs project. This ambitious project brings together two important Europe-wide initiatives under one umbrella action: the first is the IPR-Helpdesk, which will continue to provide the Helpline and training mechanisms for current and potential contractors in EC-funded RTD projects, and the second is InnovAccess, created by 19 European National Patent Offices to provide information on services. This important initiative aims to improve usage of and access to research, exploitation and innovation in Europe. ...
 
IP & RTD: Articles 
 
  The link between the international design system and the Community design system: A new option for protecting your designs at the European and international levels.
Dr. Alberto Casado
Since 2003, companies have been able to protect their designs in the European Union using a single application that provides unitary and uniform protection throughout the entire European territory. Community design protection is directly enforceable in every Member State. The area of protection increases each time the EU enlarges. If...
 
 
  Utility Model: short SMEs overview
Matteo Piccini
The constant increase in the number of SMEs accessing the research world for the first time, particularly in connection with the Framework Programs of the European Community, has caused an increase in the volume of technical information exchanged between companies operating in totally different sectors. This has often provided a chance...
 
  Looking for excellence in Intellectual Property Management
Rafael Ramírez Mirabal, DrC.
Alejandra Villoch Cambas, DrC.
Nowadays, the idea that we are in the “Knowledge Era”, where intangible assets are the most valuable elements in national and regional economies, is increasingly accepted. For this reason, governments, universities and research institutions wish to apply dynamic policies to the Intellectual Property field to promote these assets’ development,...
 
 
 
  Giving the World’s IP a Marketplace:
Roya Ghafele, Ph.D.
Remember the fundamental microeconomic principle that the intersection of the supply and demand curve determines the price? If supply increases and demand remains constant, the price goes down, if demand increases and supply remains constant, the price goes up. ...
 
 
IP in practice 
 
  Patent of the month
 
Emile Bachelet was born in France in 1863. He emigrated in the 1880s to the United States where he worked as an electrician. In this activity he discovered some therapeutic applications of electro-magnets to cure rheumatism and relieve arthritic pain. After starting in the 1890s to commercially exploit related medical devices for which...
 
 
  esp@cenet Quiz
 
This quiz is the most difficult ever proposed in the IPR-Helpdesk Bulletin. It is aimed at passionate patent searchers and information freaks. ...
 
  IP eModules
 
China, with its ever growing patent filing figures, is becoming a major actor not only because of the volume of IPR it creates but also because it produces a huge amount of prior art information. This data not being available and searchable in English full-text is causing serious headaches for actors who must access this information...
 
 
 

 
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