[Ecommerce] EU Comm to luanch dialogue on IPR framework

[Michelle Childs]

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Thanks to Cornelia for highlighting this point. Note that the software
patent battle has made them much more aware of the need to involve other
rather than just industry.
Michelle

<SNIP>The Commission will therefore launch a dialogue with industry and
other interested parties in 2006 to determine what more might usefully be
done to provide European industry with a sound IPR framework.

Brussels, 5.10.2005
COM(2005) 474 final
COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION
Implementing the Community Lisbon Programme: A policy framework to strengthen
EU manufacturing - towards amore integrated approach for industrial policy
{SEC(2005) 1215}
{SEC(2005) 1216}
{SEC(2005) 1217}

http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/LexUriServ/site/en/com/2005/com2005_0474en01.pdf

excerpt:

An Intellectual Property Rights and Counterfeiting Initiative (2006)

Intellectual property rights (IPR) are of key importance for the
competitiveness of many

industrial sectors. While key areas have already been harmonized, more can
be done to ensure

that the regulatory framework meets the needs of industry at a time of
rapid technological

development and societal change. Companies and their clients need IPR
which stimulates

innovation, provides a stable context in which to make investment
decisions, and encourages

the development of efficient new business models. The debate engendered by
the proposed

directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions has
demonstrated that

framing IPR rules which balance the needs of all stakeholders is by no
means easy. The

Commission will therefore launch a dialogue with industry and other
interested parties in

2006 to determine what more might usefully be done to provide European
industry with a

sound IPR framework. In addition, the proper enforcement of IPR within the
internal market

and in third countries is of the highest importance to fight
counterfeiting and piracy occurring

in many sectors. Infringements of IPR can jeopardize legitimate
businesses, threaten

innovation and sometimes pose problems to public health and safety. Many
companies, in

particular SMEs, are still not aware of their rights to obtain adequate IP
protection, whilst

counterfeiting continues to be a major problem in many areas of trade.
Taking account

existing and planned anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy instruments and
measures, including

those in the enforcement13 and customs fields, the Commission will review
the state of

progress in the whole area of IPR with a focus on competitiveness issues
and come up with

suggestions on how to improve the situation in 2006.




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Michelle Childs -Head of European Affairs
Consumer Project on Technology in London
24, Highbury Crescent, London, N5 1RX,UK.
Tel:+44(0)207 226 6663 ex 252.
Mob:+44(0)790 386 4642. Fax: +44(0)207 354 0607
http://www.cptech.org

Consumer Project on Technology in Washington, DC
PO Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036, USA
Tel.:  1.202.387.8030, fax: 1.202.234.5176

Consumer Project on Technology in Geneva
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Tel: +41 22 791 6727


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Brussels, 5.10.2005
COM(2005) 474 final
COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION
Implementing the Community Lisbon Programme: A policy framework to strengthen
EU manufacturing - towards amore integrated approach for industrial policy
{SEC(2005) 1215}
{SEC(2005) 1216}
{SEC(2005) 1217}

http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/LexUriServ/site/en/com/2005/com2005_0474en01.pdf[1]
excerpt:


An Intellectual Property Rights and Counterfeiting Initiative (2006)

Intellectual property rights (IPR) are of key importance for the
competitiveness of many

industrial sectors. While key areas have already been harmonized, more can be
done to ensure

that the regulatory framework meets the needs of industry at a time of rapid
technological

development and societal change. Companies and their clients need IPR which
stimulates

innovation, provides a stable context in which to make investment decisions,
and encourages

the development of efficient new business models. The debate engendered by the
proposed

directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions has
demonstrated that

framing IPR rules which balance the needs of all stakeholders is by no means
easy. The

Commission will therefore launch a dialogue with industry and other interested
parties in

2006 to determine what more might usefully be done to provide European
industry with a

sound IPR framework. In addition, the proper enforcement of IPR within the
internal market

and in third countries is of the highest importance to fight counterfeiting
and piracy occurring

in many sectors. Infringements of IPR can jeopardize legitimate businesses,
threaten

innovation and sometimes pose problems to public health and safety. Many
companies, in

particular SMEs, are still not aware of their rights to obtain adequate IP
protection, whilst

counterfeiting continues to be a major problem in many areas of trade. Taking
account

existing and planned anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy instruments and
measures, including

those in the enforcement13 and customs fields, the Commission will review the
state of

progress in the whole area of IPR with a focus on competitiveness issues and
come up with

suggestions on how to improve the situation in 2006.


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