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N. 7, Feb - Mar 2003
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 | Editorial
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| The dissemination of information in the implementation of an industrial property policy.
Daniel Hangard
Managing Director of the INPI, France.
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From the beginning, intellectual property, and especially its "industrial" aspect (patents, marks, designs, indications of origin...), has been based upon the preservation of a delicate balance between the exception which is the exploitation monopoly in favour of the title holder on the one hand and, on the other hand, the necessary information he/she must provide.
In other words, the key role that the dissemination of information plays in the implementation of an industrial property policy.
Therefore, we must greet the University of Alicante's initiative, city of the seat of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), to participate in the creation of the "IPR-Helpdesk", intended to help industrial property actors, particularly industry-sector inventors, SMEs and research centres, to find their way in the complex world of industrial property.
The French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) has, since its creation in 1951 and applying the law that established its first mission as the dissemination of all necessary information, developed an active information and awareness policy.
Among its recent initiatives, we can point out the creation in 2001 of a telephone help line - INPI-Plus - in charge of providing all practical information in quasi-real time that the Institute's clients need.
This service has been set up since the beginning of the year in Lille, under the management of Ms. Salmer, and I am pleased that one of the first "outings" of the IPR-HELPDESK was to meet its French "counterpart" for the cooperation that we all hope will be fruitful and profitable for industrial property users.
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