Traduction de «prepare patent application » (Anglais → Français) :

1. A Community patent may not be invoked against a person who, in good faith and for business purposes, had used the invention in the Community or had made effective and serious preparations for such use before the filing date or, where priority has been claimed, the priority date of the application on the basis of which the patent is granted (hereinafter referred to as "the prior user"); the prior user shall have the right, for b ...[+++]usiness purposes, to continue the use in question or to use the invention as planned during the preparations.

4. Reduce administrative burdens and promote entrepreneurship Building on the Small Business Act, and in order significantly reduce administrative burdens on business, promote their cash flow and help more people to become entrepreneurs, the EU and Member States should: Ensure that starting up a business anywhere in the EU can be done within three days at zero costs and that formalities for the hiring of the first employee can be fulfilled via a single access point; Remove the requirement on micro-enterprises to prepare annual accounts (the estimated savings for these companies are € 7bn per year) and limit the capital requirements of t ...[+++]he European private company to one euro; Accelerate the adoption of the European private company statute proposal so that from early 2009 it can facilitate cross border business activities of SMEs and to allow them to work under a single set of corporate rules across the EU; Ensure that public authorities pay invoices, including to SMEs, for supplies and services within one month to ease liquidity constraints and accept e-invoicing as equivalent to paper invoicing (this could deliver cost reductions of up to 18 € Bn); any arrears owed by public bodies should also be settled; Reduce by up to 75% the fees for patent applications and maintenance and halve the costs for an EU trademark.

To avoid that scientific tests required to prepare an application are carried out outside the Community for purely legal reasons, the Commission considered appropriate to allow such kind of activity during the validity of the supplementary protection certificate applied to the original product. The new legislation is also introducing an harmonisation of the time periods, and the linkage between data protection for nationally authorised medicines and corresponding patent protection.

The consortium is currently preparing a patent application for certain novel uses of the tests.

Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation 1240 on the protection and patentability of material of human origin, asking the Committee of Ministers adopt the text of the Bioethics Convention, thereby providing Europe with a reference to fundamental moral principles in the field of bioethics, and to initiate preparation of a protocol to the draft convention setting limits to the application of the genetic manipulation of ...[+++] human beings.

1. The Commission may grant a compulsory licence for lack or insufficiency of exploitation of a Community patent to any person filing an application four years or later after the patent application was filed and three years or later after the patent was granted if the patent proprietor has not exploited the patent in the Community on reasonable terms or has not made effective and serious preparations to do so, unless he provides legitimate reasons to j ...[+++]ustify his inaction.