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The European Patent Office has announced measures to improve the quality of patents while improving efficiency in the granting process.

The EU doesn’t do fundamental research, which is why it has taken 20 years for researchers involved in high risk research to get together, but it can’t get by without it.

The world patent isn’t coming any time soon, but the EPO hopes that a new series of measures could lay the foundations for patent reform.

The European Commission is to boost funding for high-risk futuristic research in ICT, to provide foundations for economic recovery and future competitiveness.

Liverpool University has been awarded £3.5 million to improve knowledge transfer capabilities between academic researchers and industrial partners.