SEPTEMBER 2008
Europe/Middle East
EU: The European Commission is to introduce a communication aimed at convincing small and medium-sized enterprises to make more use of IP rights and to take concrete steps to tackle counterfeiting. The objective of the communication, which was published on July 16, is to assist inventors and innovative companies – particularly SMEs – in making informed choices about protecting their IP rights and integrating them into their business plans. The Commission believes that more should be done to promote IP in Europe and it also stressed the creation of a Community patent and an integrated patent jurisdiction.
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