Intellectual property

Patent laws in the Republic of Ireland have been amended to streamline the system and bring it into line with the rest of Europe.

A new report from law firm Taylor Wessing ranks countries as places to obtain, exploit, enforce and attack intellectual property.

International experts at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) have agreed to simplify the structure of the international system for classifying patents.

Four of Europe’s leading micro and nanotechnology research bodies are reaching across national boundaries to create a single arm for grants and spin-outs.

Everyone’s strapped for cash – except pharma. But the latest spending spree is no more of a fix for expiring patents than botox is for ageing skin, writes Nuala Moran.

The European Commission is planning legislation to make it easier to set up collaborative laboratories in the European Union.