EU patent evangelism relaunch

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>]

The IPR-helpdesk.org project will be relaunched with support from UNICE
(association whose public policy is dominated by patent departments of
large companies and closely coordinated with the EPO through its advisory
committee as well as informal channels) and others.

As before, the main thrust seems to be in patent movement building in
universities and SMEs with the help of EU money.

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   Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Helpdesk - Launch event

Palais de Justice - Salle des Audiences Solennelles de la Cour d’Appel
Place Poelaert - Brussels (Belgium)
4 July 2002 - 9.30 - 13.00

Organised by: IPR-Helpdesk Consortium

Supported by: Conférence du Jeune Barreau de Bruxelles, Eurochambres, UEAPME
and UNICE:





Protecting European Research results under the Innovation and SMEs Programme

The IPR-Helpdesk is organising a free-of-charge event at the ‘Palais de
Justice’ in Brussels, on 4 July 2002. This event aims at presenting the
activities of the project: new website structure, Helpline, new Community
diffusion and protection rules in international research projects, etc.
Please find attached the Programme of the launch event ("IPR-Helpdesk launch
event Programme.doc").

The IPR-Helpdesk project is based on the experience achieved in a pilot
project launched by the European Commission in 1998. The present
IPR-Helpdesk is a European Commission’s co-financed initiative under the
contractual form of an ‘Accompanying Measure’ run by a Consortium of
European organisations coordinated by the University of Alicante (Spain),
since 1 January 2002.

The main objective of the IPR-Helpdesk is to assist potential and current
contractors taking part in Community funded research and technological
development projects on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues, and in
particular on Community diffusion and protection rules and issues relating
to IPR in international research projects.

The IPR-Helpdesk’s launch event will take place at the “Palais de Justice”
in Brussels in the “Salle des Audiences Solennelles de la Cour d’Appel” on 4
July 2002. The event is supported by the following organisations:

q        Conférence du Jeune Barreau de Bruxelles (Young Bar Association of
Brussels).

q        Eurochambres (Association of European Chamber of Commerce and
Industry).

q        UNICE (Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of
Europe).

q        UEAPME (European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-Size
Enterprises).



Main topics to be covered during the event are the IPR-Helpdesk’s activities
(new Website structure, the Helpline and the Dissemination action) and a
presentation on new Community diffusion and protection rules in
international research projects under the 6th Framework Programme for
Research and Technological Development. Additionally, other projects
integrated in the Innovation and SMEs Programme will present their
activities, such as the Innovation Relay Centres Network (IRCs) and the
Gate2Growth Helpdesk (Linking Innovation, Finance and Technology).



Among the keynote speakers, the event will count with the participation of:



q        Prof. Yves Poullet, Director of the Research Centre for Law and
Computers (Namur, Belgium).

q        Prof. Michael Blakeney, Director of the Queen Mary’s Intellectual
Property Research Institute (London, United Kingdom).

q        Prof. Michael Bohne, Senior Lecturer, from the Westfälische
Wilhelms-Universität (Muenster, Germany).



This event is open to any interested party. We specially welcome:

q        Current and potential participants in Framework Programme projects
and in particular SMEs, academia, research centres and individual
researchers.

q        Organisations involved in the exploitation, transfer and
dissemination of research results and technology.



Should you be interested in attending this event, please be so kind to
contact us - by email, phone or fax - before 25 June 2002, indicating your
Name, Organisation and Contact details. Due to limited availability of
places, participants will be selected in a first come - first served basis.

For registering to the event, please provide us with the following
information:

Name:
Position:
Organisation:
Address:
Country:
Tel:
  Our contact details:

  Carlos Soares
  Project Manager
  IPR-Helpdesk Representative Office
  106, avenue Louise
  B-1050 Brussels (Belgium)
  E-mail:  ipr-helpdesk@global-eu.com
  Tel.: + 32 2 649 53 33
  Fax: + 32 2 647 59 34
  www.ipr-helpdesk.org