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Political naivety and national protectionism were blamed for quashing the latest attempt to forge a single patent regime for the European Union.

Just few days after the announcement of cut in its biology budget, France’s leading public research organisation is going flat out for industrial contracts.

The notorious MP3 site AllofMP3.com is still functioning – despite the US–Russian agreement on intellectual property.

Danish biotech is on the rise and has outpaced its closest neighbour, Sweden, according to a study published last week.

Watertight protection is more important than the speed with which patents are granted, according to a survey of business and academia.

Three reports, two commissioned by possible next premier Gordon Brown and one inspired by him provide a glimpse of the future shape of UK innovation policy.

The UK Government's budget preview was an excuse to flood the place with a torrent of papers on science, engineering and technology.

The OECD's "Science, Technology and Industry Outlook" for 2006 predicts that China will become world’s second highest investor in R&D by the end of the year. Europe, meanwhile, gets left behind in its "R&D intensity".

In the recent history of Intellectual Property, the case of MP3 and Fraunhoffer Society, prestigious German research organisation, is a stuff of legend.