Science|Business Reporting

The consumer goods company gets access to all resources through a single agreement

This is the German research organisation’s first centre in South America

Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing says it is possible to automatically scan for gems in Chinese language journals and patents

Data on worldwide IP activity in 2009, published this week, show Asia now accounts for 37 per cent of trademark applications

The quality of patent filings has fallen by 20 per cent over the past two decades. And the rush to protect even minor improvements in products or services is overburdening patent offices

GE Healthcare launched an open call to oncology researchers and healthcare specialists, seeking ideas to improve the detection and treatment of breast cancer, as it committed to spend $1 billion on cancer R&D in the next five years

A comprehensive reform of US patents takes effect today (16 September), when the America Invents Act is made law. The changes bring the US patent system into greater conformity with the rest of the world.

Five countries have joined the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in pledge to create the ELIXIR system for storing public life science information

Campaigners say UK science will be £1.6 billion worse off in 2014 -2015, with inflation leading to further erosion. Cancer Research UK, Europe’s largest charitable funder of R&D has called for a new government strategy

Scientists are increasingly happy to publish in open access journals and think publicly-funded research results should be free.