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• Infringement of Community patents (GB)
• Swedish judicial practice on patents compared with EPO Board of Appeal case law (SE)
• Case law on medical and biotechnological inventions in the EPO and national courts (GB)
• Legal protection for integrated circuits under intellectual property law (BE)
• Protection of plant varieties under French, German, English and Community law (FR)
• Impact of introduction of Community patent on costs for grant and maintenance of patents in the EPC Contracting States (FR)
• Prior use or prior possession under the Community Patent Convention (GB)
• Patent law and drugs (NL)
• Comparative study of patenting at small technology-based enterprises, large industries and universities (SE)
• Patentability criteria and scope of protection of patents for biotechnological inventions in international patent law (NL)
• The protection of biotechnological inventions in Community and Italian law by means of patents and plant breeders' rights (IT)
• The economic and political implications of the European patent system for small and medium-sized enterprises in specific countries (DE)
• Workshop for results and methods of economic patent research (DE)
• Procedure for the revocation of European patents (NL)
• Bringing Polish patent law into line with European law (PL)
• Terms and strategies for acquiring and exploiting European industrial property rights in respect of common inventions (DE)
• Patent litigation (UK)
• Prospects for a European utility model system as seen by the Mediterranean states of the EC (ES)
• Case law on the extent of protection (Article 69 EPC) conferred by patents in DE, AT and CH since 1965 (CH)
• The protection of inventions and innovations using patents, utility models and industrial designs - Difficult neighbours, present situation and development prospects in Europe (PL)
• Use of European and national patents in the technology protection strategies of Italian firms in different industrial sectors (IT)
• Disclosure of inventions in patent applications: sufficiency of disclosure and supporting claims under Article 83 and 84 EPC (FR/DE)
• Patent protection for the results of research at European universities (ES)
• Simultaneous inventions (IE)
• The past, present and potential benefits to international business of patent harmonisation - with particular reference to use made of the European patent system by japanese companies (UK)
• Advising client's choice of patent route: a European perspective (UK)
• What makes active patent policy economically worthwhile? - An analysis with reference to Austrian companies (AT)
• Patentability of inventions under French national jurisdictions and EPO board of appeal case law - a comparative study (FR)
• Patents at American universities - legal position and economic exploitation (AT)
• Independent inventors in Germany and European patent applications - a social science case-study (DE)
• Opportunities and mechanisms for intellectual property-based technology transfer at publicly funded research establishments (ES)
• Drafting and amendment of claims in European patent law (CH)
• Patenting of human genes under German and European law - possibilities and barriers (DE)
• Patent office databases (IT)
• Doctors as potential patent infringers - appropriateness of, and limits to, the EPC's exclusion of patents for diagnostic and therapeutic methods under the EPC: topical aspects (DE)
• The appellate structure of the European Patent System (UK)
• TRIPS and the European Patent Office: Need for change? (DE)
• Patenting awareness and need for patenting among small software producing companies (SE)
• Organisation of a colloquium in 1999 on the topic "Pharmaceutical patents, innovation and public health" (FR/BE)
• Legal protection and the exploitation of university inventions (ES)
• The filing of biological samples for the purpose of obtaining industrial property rights (FR)
• Jurisdiction for international property matters in the European Union (FR)
• The development for protection of inventions in the Grand Duchy of Baden: 1806 - 1877 (DE)
• The terminology of European patent claims in German and English (DE)
• Equivalence theory in patent law - a comparative study of equivalence in the Nether lands, Germany and the United States (NL)
• Intellectual property rights, parallel imports and the regulation of international trade and competition (ES)
• Creation of a biotechnology concordance and of an innovation input-output table by using the EPO's data set (IT)
• Patent protection in the territory of the States of the former Yugoslav Republic and the TRIPs Agreement (YU)
• Enabling biotechnological inventions in Europe and the United States (The patentability of proteins and DNA sequences with special emphasis on the disclosure requirement) (BE)
• Patent infringement sanctions and their enforcement in the French and German courts (FR/DE)
• Interpretation of article 69 EPC in French practice (DE)
• The fundamentals of the patent acts of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda (ETH)
• The TRIPS Agreement: How will the WTO come to terms with the public health debate (DE)
• Using patents to measure the international comparative performance of non-profit research institutes (including universities), small firms and individual inventors (IE)
• Distribution and growth of embedded software patent applications (SE)
• Assessment of patentability in Europe, Japan and the USA especially regarding inventive step (SE)
• Patent rights in stem cell research - new challenges for the legal system (SE)
• Clinical trials in patent law (JP)
• Porter's Hypothesis: A theoretical and empirical investigation (NL)
• "Ordre Public" as a limit to the legal protection of inventions in biotechnology (DE)
• Division and deletion in patent law (DE)
• Unitary interpretation of patent law in Europe with particular regard to the EPLA (DE)
• Choosing a patent strategy in a business context: a gaming-simulation approach (FR)
• Forecasting patent filings in the telecommunications industry (IT)
• Patents and developments in Mercosur countries. A new dimension of the Mercosur-European Union Association Agreement (ES)
• Implementing article 27 of TRIPS Agreement in light of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: The protection of genetic resources and related traditional knowledge in the International Intellectual Property System (IT)
• The patent protection of information and business methods (IT)
• Patenting disease genes (DE)
• Limited incontestability for small-firm patents (IE)
• Defensive claims for the holder of a simple patent licence (DE)
• Patent infringement clearance practice in European companies (UK)
• Emerging innovation systems in the Baltic states: a patent data analysis (DE)
•  A model country-level innovation performance tracking platform: a comparative study for the data availability and reliability of possible innovation indicators in Turkey and Europe (TR)
• Business method patentability and social process (FR)