standards concerning the availability, scope and use of intellectual property rights

procedures concerning the enforcement of intellectual property rights | procedures to enforce intellectual property rights

intellectual property right | IPR | intellectual right | IR | intellectual property | IP

TRIPS [ agreement on intellectual property rights | trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights | TRIPS Agreement ]

Exchange of Notes constituting an Agreement between the government of Canada and the government of the United States of America on the Allocation of Intellectual Property Rights, Interests and Royalties for Intellectual Property Created or Furnished under

Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights [ TRIPS Agreement ]

Determinants of Innovative Activity in Canadian Manufacturing Firms: the Role of Intellectual Property Rights

intellectual property [ intellectual property right ]

In such circumstances, it is likely that the licensee would have been able to enter the second geographic market on the basis of its own technology, unless such entry is precluded by objective factors, including the existence of blocking intellectual property rights.

21. Welcomes the Commission’s action plan to modernise the enforcement of intellectual property rights online with regard to commercial scale infringement; highlights the importance of copyright law and related rights being respected in the digital age; considers that copyright enforcement as laid down in Directive 2004/48/EC across Member States is extremely important and that copyright and related rights are only as effective as the enforcement measures in place to protect them; highlights that the EU faces a significant number of IPR infringements and that, according to the Commission’s data, customs authorities noted more than 95 ...[+++]000 detention cases in 2014, while the value of the 35.5 million articles seized is estimated to be more than EUR 600 million; emphasises the role of the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights to provide reliable data and objective analyses of the impacts of infringements on economic actors; calls, therefore, for an effective, sustainable, proportionate and modernised approach to the enforcement, implementation and protection of intellectual property rights online, particularly with regard to commercial-scale infringement, to be adopted; notes that in some cases copyright infringements may result from difficulty in finding legally available desired content; calls, therefore, for a wider range of user-friendly legal offers to be developed and promoted to the public;

4. Stresses the challenges that intellectual property rights (IPR) over genetic resources and traditional knowledge raise in developing countries in terms of access to medicine, production of generic drugs and farmers’ access to seeds; stresses, accordingly, that EU trade policy related to IPR must be consistent with the objective of Policy Coherence for Development as enshrined in the EU Treaty;

4. Notes that while data on the number and type of IPR in existence is relatively easy to collect and analyse, studies on the scope and scale of IP infringements and their relationship with criminality have been more difficult; emphasises, to this end, the important role played by the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights in providing data, tools and databases to support the fight against IP infringements;