Traduction de «brevet de perfectionnement » (Français → Anglais) :

In those cases, they typically need to increase the number of patents to protect new uses and refinements of the technology, and to increase the geographical scope of their patent protection in order to enable international activities.

- an undertaking by the subcontractor to pass on to the contractor on a non-exclusive basis any technical improvements which he has made during the currency of the agreement, or, where a patentable invention has been discovered by the subcontractor, to grant non-exclusive licences in respect of inventions relating to improvements and new applications of the original invention to the contractor for the term of the patent held by the latter.

And the combined technical efforts of the parties could be expected to lead to further rationalization, particularly with regard to the exchange of licences for patents for improvements and new applications of inventions pursuant to paragraph 4 of the basic agreement.

Examples of the sorts of measures that might be co-financed are: - investmentinresearchdepartments,researchlaboratories,construction- and planning offices of enterprises as well as in research establishment - infrastructure investments in research- innovative- and technology centres which promote and facilitate the creation, application, further development and dissemination of new technological know-how on the development and production of new products - RD co-operation to develop new products and processes - RD projects of individual businesses to develop new products and processes - development and introduction of new and improved products, processes or production related services (loans and grants) and support for the registration and protection of paten ...[+++]ts in foreign countries or at the European patent office - qualification of managers Priority 4 - Measures to protect and improve the environment The task of cleaning up the environment is immense.

Licensing agreements containing such restrictions do not need to be notified to the Commission; - a certain number of obligations which the parties may lawfully include in their contracts (such as the right for licensors to terminate the agreement in the event of the licensee challenging the validity of the patent, the secret or substantial nature of the licensed know-how or the obligation for licensees to use their best endeavours to manufacture and market the licensed product); - a "blacklist" of clauses or restrictions the insertion of which in an agreement prevents block exemption being granted (restrictions on price and quantities ...[+++], a ban on exploiting competing technologies, customer restrictions between competing manufacturers, obligation on licensees to assign improvements to the technology concerned, territorial restrictions for a longer duration than those exempted); - an opposition procedure by which exemption is extended to agreements containing additional restrictions on competition not specified in the regulation, on condition that such agreements are notified to the Commission and that the Commission does not oppose the application of the exemption within four months (as opposed to six previously). Clauses previously outlawed, such as an obligation on licensees to procure from the licensor supplies which are not essential for a technically proper exploitation of the licensed technology, are subject to this procedure.

Alongside the procedural improvements envisaged by the directive, an improved system of patenting biotechnological inventions is foreseen.