Traduction de «Savoir-faire logiciel » (Français → Anglais) :

(b) "technology transfer agreement" means a patent licensing agreement, a know-how licensing agreement, a software copyright licensing agreement or a mixed patent, know-how or software copyright licensing agreement, including any such agreement containing provisions which relate to the sale and purchase of products or which relate to the licensing of other intellectual property rights or the assignment of intellectual property rights, provided that those provisions do not constitute the primary object of the agreement and are directly related to the production of the contract products; assignments of patents, know-how, software copyrigh ...[+++]t or a combination thereof where part of the risk associated with the exploitation of the technology remains with the assignor, in particular where the sum payable in consideration of the assignment is dependent on the turnover obtained by the assignee in respect of products produced with the assigned technology, the quantity of such products produced or the number of operations carried out employing the technology, shall also be deemed to be technology transfer agreements;

A workable distinction is that a patent protects the practical application of knowledge, ideas or know-how, whereas copyright is not concerned with practical effects, but rather protects the expression of works (in the case of software, the code, in whatever form) against unauthorised reproduction or commercial exploitation.

Moreover, the software created for the EGNOS integrity messages has contributed to the development in Europe of know-how that will be used by Galileo to build a high-quality system and reduce development costs.

The authors of the study considered that harmonisation on the basis of the status quo would have no consequence save for the important one that SMEs and independent software developers will be less likely to consider computer program related inventions unpatentable.

5. For the purpose of this Agreement, intellectual property includes in particular copyright, including the copyright on computer programmes, and neighbouring rights, including artistic designs, and industrial property which includes utility models, patents including patents for bio-technological inventions and plant varieties or other effective sui generis systems, industrial designs, geographical indications including appellations of origin, trademarks for goods or services, topographies of integrated circuits as well as the legal protection of data bases and the protection against unfair competition as referred to in Article 10a of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and protection of undisclosed confidential inf ...[+++]ormation on know how.

If the European Union were to help give these countries and their people access to the information superhighway, one of the most significant reasons for migration (lack of work) would be removed. Telework could be carried out from these countries. The extent to which this might lead to further job losses in the European Union, because it is as easy for a company to recruit teleworkers (including those with academic training such as programmers, accountants or software designers) from non-member as from member countries, is a problem that will have to be addressed in future European legislation and at world level (e.g. ILO conventions).