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  N. 6, Dec.2002 - Jan.2003 

Editorial 
Innovation information and diffusion among SMEs in Italy.
Maria Ludovica Agrò
 
Thank you for this space that gives me the opportunity to introduce myself in an area, that of the IPR-Helpdesk, which I consider of great interest, just a few months after being appointed director of the Italian Patent and Trade mark Office...
 
IP & RTD: Articles 
 
  New rulings of the European Court of Justice on parallel imports of pharmaceutical products
David Wood, Bruno Lebrun and Alvaro Ramos
 
Recent rulings of the European Court of Justice provide some guidance on the extent to which parallel importers can repackage pharmaceutical products without infringing trademark rights. Interplay between competition law, trademark protection and the authorisation process is also examined. ...
 
 
  Napster: The Internet Meets Copyright Law
Tim Harman
 
Before the advent of the Internet, copyright in recorded music was not a complicated matter. Music was sold on cassettes and CDs. Copyright law gave the owner of the copyright (usually the recording company) an exclusive right to copy and distribute the music, and this right could be enforced fairly easily...
 
  The Patent Information Policy And Online Services Of The German Patent And Trade Mark Office
Dipl.-Ing. Berndt Tödte
 
In its bid to meet its clients from all over the world less as a "classical office" and more as a "modern service provider", the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) has taken great steps forward recently. Contributing to this has been a modern patent information policy, as well as the rapid implementation of that policy by high-quality Internet...
 
 
 
  Prize-giving ceremony for the Descartes and Archimedes Prizes European Patent Office - Munich - 5.12.2002
Ir. Denis Dambois*
 
On the 5th December 2002, the prize-giving ceremony for the Descartes and Archimedes Prizes for science took place in Munich. These prizes are given by the European Commission (Directorate-General Research) in the context of its Research Framework Programme...
 
 
IP & RTD in practice 
 
  How can you specify pre-existing know-how in your consortium agreement if it is not patented?
 
It is important to distinguish " pre-existing know-how " from "knowledge"...
 
 
  Patent of the month
 
Can you imagine a car where the exhausted air is even purer than the incoming air? A dream? A fantasy?...Well, it has arrived...
 
  esp@cenet Quiz
 
The esp@cenet quiz is an exercise proposed monthly to our readers. Its aim is to show that patent searching can be an exciting quest, yielding relevant results in almost all technical fields...
 
 
 
  How to find a patent
 
In the two former issues of our newsletter, we started to present the main searching fields of the free online patent databases. We have already described the "publication number", "application number", "priority number", "publication date" and "proprietor" fields. ...
 
 
News 
 
  EU. successful EU-wide recognition of directors as "authors" of films
 
 
  UK. The Court of Appeal upholds William Hill Patent Decision
 
  EU. First "calls for proposals" under FP6 published in the Official Journal.
 
 
  ICANN: Additional Generic Top-Level Domain Names Coming Soon
 
  EU. The OHIM opens the door to registered Community Designs
 
 
  EU. Rules for participation in FP6 and dissemination as well as rules for participation in FP6/Euratom published.
 
  UK: Law Commission Proposes ISP Libel Liability Reform
 
 
  UK: Dutch company wins antidepressant patent dispute
 
  General craze for IPR-Helpdesk subscription service
 
   
 
Events 
 
  IPR-Helpdesk at FP6 Presentation .Barcelona (Spain)
 
 
  Hanover (Germany), 3-4 February 2003. BMBF event to launch FP6.
 
  Beijing (China), 24 to 26 April 2003. WIPO Summit on Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Economy.
 
   
 
Last updates 
  Last updates of the IPR-Helpdesk Web site
 
The IPR-Helpdesk team is very pleased to inform you that since the last issue of the IPR-Bulletin, very useful and interesting new documents have been posted on our Web site...

 
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