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| Date | Title | Extract |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, 02.08.2012 | How can right holders protect themselves from counterfeiting and piracy? | The European Commission has a new webpage concerning how IPR holders can protect their rights by asking customs to detain goods found to be suspected of infringing IPR. Customs are in fact easy and... |
| Tuesday, 31.07.2012 | EC in favour of a copyright exception to facilitate access to books for visually impaired persons | Last week, the European Union participated in the negotiations at WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights to facilitate access to books by visually impaired persons.Today,... |
| Thursday, 26.07.2012 | EU customs detain over 100 million counterfeited goods at EU borders | In 2011, EU Customs detained almost 115 million products suspected of violating intellectual property rights (IPR) compared to 103 million in 2010. The number of intercepted cases increased by 15%... |
| Thursday, 26.07.2012 | New online material from the EPO | The European Patent Office (EPO) has recently released new material as complement of the e-learning section. The last two very interesting resources are about “Search matters 2012” and... |
| Tuesday, 24.07.2012 | Court of Justice of the EU decides on .eu domain names | When registration of .eu domain names started, it was limited during the first two months to public bodies, as well as holders ofnational and Community trade marks and geographical indications. This... |
| Thursday, 19.07.2012 | ERA guidelines on IP management in International Research Collaboration Agreements between European and Non-European Partners | Taking a lead from the European Commission’s “Recommendation on “the management of intellectual property (IP) in knowledge transfer (KT) activities and code of practice for... |
| Thursday, 19.07.2012 | European IPR Helpdesk Bulletin Issue (6) | We are pleased to inform you that the sixth issue of the European IPR Helpdesk Bulletin has been released and is now available on-line.In this new Bulletin issue you will find a first article which... |
| Thursday, 19.07.2012 | Open access to research results will boost Europe's innovation capacity | Within a broader goal to enable researchers, research institutions and businesses to better move, compete and co-operate across borders and as a complement to the European Commission's... |
| Monday, 16.07.2012 | UK Intellectual Property (IP) Crime Report | The UK IP Crime Group has published the Intellectual Property (IP) Crime Report 2011 – 2012. This report “provides an overview of the initiatives and activities to tackle IP crime during... |
| Thursday, 12.07.2012 | EU unitary patent: Council move would infringe EU law, says EP rapporteur | The agreement reached by the European Council on 28 and 29 June 2012 settled the location of the Unified Patent Court's seats. However, the heads of state and government suggested that articles 6... |
| Thursday, 12.07.2012 | Copyright: Commission proposes easier music licensing in the Single Market | The European Commission has proposed measures to modernise collecting societies and put in place incentives to promote their transparency and efficiency.In practice as a result of the proposed... |
| Tuesday, 10.07.2012 | Parliament clarifies rules on customs handling of counterfeit or pirated goods | Last week the Parliament discussed and voted a resolution on the European Comission’s proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning customs enforcement of... |
| Thursday, 05.07.2012 | Release of the Global Innovation Index 2012 | Switzerland, Sweden, and Singapore lead in overall innovation performance according to the Global Innovation Index 2012 (GII) launched last Tuesday by the INSEAD international business school, and... |
| Thursday, 05.07.2012 | European Parliament rejects ACTA | The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), was rejected yesterday, Wednesday 4, by the European Parliament (EP), and hence cannot become law in the EU. This was the first time that Parliament... |
| Thursday, 05.07.2012 | Standardisation in R&D projects | We are pleased to inform you that the European IPR Helpdesk has issued a new fact sheet on the benefits that standardisation can bring about within European projects.This document, developed in... |
| Tuesday, 03.07.2012 | EU unitary patent – the Council reached an agreement on Court seats | Last Friday, the Council reached an agreement on the seat of the Court of First Instance with competence in respect of actions relating to the validity or infringement of the future EU unitary patent... |
| Tuesday, 03.07.2012 | Foreground in FP7 projects | We are pleased to inform that the European IPR Helpdesk has published a new fact sheet dedicated to foreground.There are many reasons why SMEs, universities, research centres and other entities... |
| Thursday, 28.06.2012 | Agreement reached on an international treaty for the protection of artists in the audio-visual sector | Last Tuesday, 26 June, Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) signed in Beijing, China, a treaty on the protection of audio-visual performances, the first to be to be... |
| Thursday, 28.06.2012 | “Trade Mark Cluttering”: an exploratory report | Last April, The UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) issued the results of a commissioned research exploring the problem of trademark “cluttering”, meaning a dense set of similar... |
| Tuesday, 26.06.2012 | A clean and open Internet: Public consultation on procedures for notifying and acting on illegal content hosted by online intermediaries | The European Commission launched a new consultation on the procedures for notifying and acting on illegal content hosted by online intermediaries. All citizens and organisations are welcome to... |
