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		<title>A &#8220;Single Market for Intellectual Property Rights&#8221; in a Global world of standards and competition policies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The IPR Strategy recognizes explicitly that IPRs create a host of ways for innovators to extract value and reward, and that each is valid. It recognizes that businesses should not be hampered in finding new models to value their IPR. Most strikingly for the standards world, the Communication expressly recognizes in the context of standardization]]></description>
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		<title>A Single Market for IPR – Necessary, but not Comprehensive Enough to Boost Innovation and Growth in Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Communication of the European Commission about a “Single Market for Intellectual Property Rights” provides a comprehensive approach of initiatives covering all relevant Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs).  All proposed initiatives are justified based on the current knowledge about the economic impacts of IPRs and other intangibles on companies’, but also economies’ competitiveness and growth. Furthermore,]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talkstandards.com/a-single-market-for-ipr-%e2%80%93-necessary-but-not-comprehensive-enough-to-boost-innovation-and-growth-in-europe/</link>
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		<title>Putting Knowledge into Practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most European-based institutions – not least the European Commission – consider IPRs to be an important aspect (among other issues) in the EU’s ability to compete in the global economy, as EU growth and jobs are hampered when ideas, brands and products are counterfeited and pirated. Indeed IPRs, including patents, trademarks, design rights and copyrights,]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming: Balancing Antitrust and IPR Protection in EU Legislation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The IPR Strategy recognizes explicitly that IPRs create a host of ways for innovators to extract value and reward, and that each is valid. It recognizes that businesses should not be hampered in finding new models to value their IPR. Most strikingly for the standards world, the Communication expressly recognizes in the context of standardization]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talkstandards.com/upcoming-balancing-antitrust-and-ipr-protection-in-eu-legislation/</link>
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		<title>Upcoming: A Single Market for IPR – Necessary, but not comprehensive enough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Communication of the European Commission about a “Single Market for Intellectual Property Rights” provides a comprehensive approach of initiatives covering all relevant Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). However, the approach is not comprehensive enough to boost innovation in Europe&#8230;&#8230; This article is authored by Knut Blind, TU Berlin, Chair of Innovation Economics; Fraunhofer FOKUS, Public Innovation;]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming: Putting Knowledge into Practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most European-based institutions – not least the European Commission – consider IPRs to be an important aspect (among other issues) in the EU’s ability to compete in the global economy, as EU growth and jobs are hampered when ideas, brands and products are counterfeited and pirated. This article is authored by Meir Pugatch, Director of Research,]]></description>
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		<title>European Standards in Business-Related Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In its Communication on “Europe 2020: a strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth” the European Commission underlines that a strong, deep and extended Single Market is vital for growth and job creation. To answer the challenges set to achieve the Europe 2020 goals, a Single Market with well functioning open markets and empowered consumers]]></description>
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		<title>Standards as Crucial Element for the Implementation of the Single Market in Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The extension of the European legislation, i.e. the New Approach, on the European standardisation system to extend it to services was overdue reflecting the crucial and – despite the economic crises – still increasing relevance of the service sector for the economic development of the European economy. Due to the different modes of service trade,]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talkstandards.com/standards-as-crucial-element-for-the-implementation-of-the-single-market-in-services/</link>
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		<title>The Future for Standards is Not Standard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking at the title of today’s forum, one wonders if standardizing the single market is something of an oxymoron? While on one hand the standardization process will enable greater interoperability and reduce barriers to trade, on the other, markets are ever evolving beasts and, as fast as we try to make standards, new technologies and]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talkstandards.com/the-future-for-standards-is-not-standard/</link>
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		<title>Behind the Scenes: Standardisation and the Single Market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Within the context of Standardising the single market, we have twelve projects for the 2012 Single Market” – one of which is to Strengthen Standardisation. The overall goals can be summarised as: 1) Free movement of Goods: Product interoperability, safety, quality 2) Services: inclusive services, ensuring growth 3) Standards &#8211; accessible, inclusion of SMEs But]]></description>
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