A changing world

Uit de Commission Communication " Reviewing Community Innovation in a changing world:

"An adequate legal framework to protect knowledge properly is a precondition for an innovative society. In the area of Intellectual Property Rights, among other things as a result of the failure to introduce a Community patent, the EU is still not providing favourable conditions for the development and diffusion of innovation. The European patent system is costly and fragmented, discouraging innovation compared to the US and Japan20. The difference in patenting costs in comparison to these countries is significant and is not being reduced. It is high time to change this situation.

Commission efforts on copyright policy have been aiming to further develop the emerging EU cross-border market for the dissemination of knowledge. The development of new digital products, services and business models, which thrive on openness, needs a supportive and predictable legal framework."

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