The title of this post is a quotation from Meir Brand’s presentation, delivered at Innovation Thursday in Prague last week. The event attracted about 130 people and was organised in cooperation with our FIRST Innovation Park and the CITT project. Michael Novak and I also took part in the founding meeting of the Innovators Club where we talked to several key ICT innovation players in the Czech Republic.
I wrote down a few remarks that seem to me highly relevant to the technology transfer activities within CITT and thus I am offering them as the starting points for our cluster strategy development.
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There is no form of intellectual property more controversial, nor more often misunderstood, than so-called “business method patents”. While some individuals and companies complain that patent systems were never intended to protect “methods of doing business”, patent applications on these types of inventions continue to be filed in record numbers. Government patent offices continue to issue such patents, with support by judges who interpret the patent law. While the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has perhaps become the most liberal in granting business method patents, Europe (such as by way of the European Patent Office) also allows these types of patents to be granted, if they are deemed to have a “technical effect”. Like most debates, there are plenty of arguments to be made pro and con.
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The European Commission is going to hold a public hearing on future EU patent policy on the 12th of July 2006. This public hearing is following a public consultation launched in January 2006 with the aim of collecting stakeholders’ views on the patent system in Europe and of seeking views on what measures could be taken in the near future to improve this system.
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On Monday, March 7, 2005, European government ministers approved a directive designed to reform how patents are handled in the European Union. The European Parliament (which includes some opponents of the directive), will ultimately vote on the initiative, which will either become law or be rejected.
At issue in the directive is whether the European Union will have an EU-wide system for enforcing patents (currently handled on a national level), and whether Europe will allow broader patent protection for software.
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