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Articles tagged with: European Union and Patents
EU project picks up the patent processing pace
EU Member States are promoting the creation of an EU-wide patenting system called 'Community Patent' that would allow individuals and enterprises to obtain a unitary patent common to all. Experts say patents fuel innovation and creativity, thus helping intensify and sustain Europeans' competitiveness. For a team of EU-funded researchers, the use of semantic Web technology could be just what the patent doctor ordered. Backed with EUR 2.5 million in funding, the PatExpert ('Advanced patent document processing techniques') project targeted the development of a functioning service and a change in the paradigm currently being followed for patent processing. more
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OECD Countries Use Tax Breaks to Drive Corporate R&D Spending
More and more OECD governments are giving firms tax breaks to drive innovation while cutting their direct spending on business research and development (R&D), and are also encouraging public research organisations to commercialise their inventions, according to a new OECD report. According to the report, two thirds of the 30 OECD member countries offered businesses tax subsidies in 2006, up from 12 in 1995, and most have tended to make it more generous over the years. Direct government funding financed an average of 7% of business R&D in 2005, down from 11% in 1995. more
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Nokia files Patent Exhaustion Case against Qualcomm
Nokia announced earlier today that it has filed complaints against Qualcomm in Germany and the Netherlands requesting declarations that Qualcomm's European patents are exhausted in respect of products placed on the European Union (EU) market with a Qualcomm license, in this instance chipsets supplied by Texas Instruments. more
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Twenty Years of Research at Nokia
Nokia's corporate research unit, Nokia Research Center, celebrated its 20th anniversary yesterday, at its global headquarters in Helsinki, Finland. Established in 1986, the research center currently employs some 1,100 researchers located in Finland, China, Germany, Hungary, Japan and the United States.
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Qualcomm CEO: Don't Fret Nokia's CDMA 'Ramp Down'
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Paul Jacobs, Qualcomm's chief executive, doesn't see much reason for its investors to worry about Nokia - at least in the short term. more
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EU Ends Antitrust Probe After ETSI Changes Patent Rules
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- The European Commission Monday closed an antirust investigation into the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, a group that sets the industry's technology standards. more
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