BUSINESSEUROPE promotes policies that boost Europe’s innovation capacity by strengthening IP protection in terms of quality, costs, legal certainty and enforcement.

In the area of intellectual property, BUSINESSEUROPE’s priorities are :

• Rapid adoption of an EU Patent and a common European patent court system.
• International cooperation to harmonise patent formalities and proceedings in the main patent regions, in order to reduce costs, time pendency and boost legal certainty for users.
• Streamlining of trademark systems in Europe.
• Support of all initiatives to fight against counterfeiting and piracy, including European Observatory on counterfeiting and conclusion of the ACTA negotiations.
• Addressing growing trend towards lowering intellectual property standards in a wide range of technology areas, including the climate change debate.

2010

July

Latest developments in China's intellectual property system and law (12 July 2010) - 2010-01636-E.pdf (132 kB) Speaking notes for Philippe de Buck, EU-China business seminar, Brussels

September

Business priorities for the Belgian Presidency (10 September 2010) - 2010-01864-E.pdf (112 kB) Letter from President J&uum;rgen R. Thumann handed over to Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme

June

Anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (28 June 2010) - 2010-01507-E.pdf (100 kB) Joint resolution of BUSINESSEUROPE, IIPPF and the US Chamber of Commerce on an anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA)

May

Enforcement of intellectual property rights (21 May 2010) - 2010-01333-E.pdf (197 kB) BUSINESSEUROPE comments to the Commission consultation paper on review of EU legislation on customs enforcement of intellectual property rights

Competitiveness Council on 25-26 May 2010 (20 May 2010) - 2010-01242-E.pdf (561 kB) Letter from Philippe de Buck to Competitiveness Council Chair Miguel Sebastián Gascón and Co-Chairs Christina Garmendia Medizábal and Diego López Garrido

Future revision of the trade mark system in the EU (4 May 2010) - 2010-01193-E.pdf (334 kB) Trade mark users associations ask Competitiveness Council not to jump to conclusions - from AIM, BUSINESSEUROPE, ECTA, INTA and MARQUES

March

Use of a Community Trade Mark (30 March 2010) - 2010-00921-E.pdf (62 kB) Letter from Jérôme P. Chauvin to Margot Fröhlinger, Director for knowledge-based economy, DG Internal Market

New President at the European Patent Office (2 March 2010) - 2010-00818-E.pdf (219 kB) Letter from Philippe de Buck to the new EPO President, Benoît Battistelli

January

Presidency elections at the European Patent Office (21 January 2010) - 2010-00211-E.pdf (346 kB) Letter from Philippe de Buck to the members of the EPO Administrative Council

Study on the functioning of the European trademark system (15 January 2010) - 2010-00316-E.pdf (457 kB) etter from Jérôme P. Chauvin to the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property

2009

December

OHIM cooperation fund (11 December 2009) - 2010-00315-E.pdf (244 kB) Letter from Philippe de Buck to Lord Mogg

November

Common patent jurisdication system and Community patent (17 November 2009) - 2009-02482-E.pdf (394 kB) letter from Philippe de Buck to Coreper

September

Climate change, technology and intellectual property rights (28 September 2009) - 2009-02125-E.pdf (585 kB) Joint Resolution fo BUSINESSEUROPE, IIPPF and the Global Intellectual Property Center

Meeting of the EU Council ahead of the G20 summit in Pittsburgh on 24-25 September 2009 (15 September 2009) - 2009-01874-E.pdf (77 kB) Letter from President Thumann to José Manuel Barroso

Technology deployment for combating climate change (14 September 2009) - 2009-01934-E.pdf (132 kB) BUSINESSEUROPE position in view of the international negotiations for a post-2012 climate agreement

Intellectual property rights and climate change (14 September 2009) - 2010-00313-E.pdf (83 kB) Letter from Philippe de Buck to Andreas Carlgren, Swedish Environment Minister

Discussions in WIPO on the Patent Cooperation Treaty (10 September 2009) - 2009-01878-E.pdf (705 kB) Letter from the Industry Trilateral to Francis Gurry, Director General, WIPO

July

OHIM consultation on cooperation fund (10 July 2009) - 2009-01594-E.pdf (128 kB) Letter from AIM, BUSINESSEUROPE, ECTA, INTA and MARQUES to the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market

Substantive patent law treaty (7 July 2009) - 2009-01595-E.pdf (295 kB) Letter from AIPLA, BUSINESSEUROPE, JIPA and IPO to Heads of the Trilateral Patent Offices

June

Simplifications in patent processes (29 June 2009) - 2009-01542-E.pdf (290 kB) letter from BUSINESSEUROPE, JIPA, IPO and AIPLA to the heads of the European, US and Japanese patent offices

Common citation document proposal (26 June 2009) - 2009-01596-E.pdf (291 kB) Letter from AIPLA, BUSINESSEUROPE, JIPA and IPO to Heads of the Trilateral Patent Offices

April

Patentability of computer programmes (29 April 2009) - 2009-01081-E.pdf (187 kB) Amicus curiae brief- Letter from Jérôme P. Chauvin to the EPO registry of the Enlarged Board of Appeal

Intellectual property and the Commission (2 April 2009) - 2010-00314-E.pdf (414 kB) Joint letter to José Manuel Barroso

March

Negotiations for an agreement to create a unifed patent litigation system (31 March 2009) - 2009-00978-E.pdf (218 kB) Letter from Philippe de Buck to Karel Cada, President of the Czech Industrial Property Office

February

Patent Cooperation Treaty and the Patent Prosecution Highway programme (13 February 2009) - 2009-00387-E.pdf (374 kB) letter from Philippe de Buck to Jesper Kongstad, Danish Patent and Trademark Office

Pharmaceutical sector inquiry (3 February 2009) - 2009-00275-E.pdf (418 kB) Letter from Philippe de Buck to Commissioner Neelie Kroes

January

Genetic resources patent disclosure systems in Brazil and India (12 January 2009) - 2009-00129-E.pdf (747 kB) Letter from Philippe de Buck to Commissioner Ashton

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