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Influence the patent policy: EU Commission communication on patent policy is available for you
According to some representatives of the Commission, it could be possible that the Commission is making formal proposals under the Portuguese Presidency in the second half of 2007, if the Ministers of the Member States would endorse the approach in June.
A separate and comprehensive Communication on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is planned for 2008, to complement the Patent Communication and address outstanding non-legislative and horizontal issues in all fields of intellectual property.
More information about the Commission proposal is available at: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/indprop/patent/index_en.htm
There is also the possibility that some Member States would use Article 43 of the EU Treaty, if the Patent issue does not move in the legislative process. This method would in principle allow a smaller group of Member States to advance faster than the others. Even if this approach is not used, the possible availability to use this approach may put pressure for all the Member States to find a common approach.
Knowledge Transfer Professionals may influence the Patent process by participating into the ProTon Europe Special Interest Group. Join the Group by sending your contact information to secretariat@protoneurope.org. More information about this group is found at Proton Europe web-site under: Policy
Representatives of companies, university researchers, the Public Administration and KTOs professionals deliberated on the basic principles that must govern the collaboration in R&D and KT activities between enterprises and the University.
