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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 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.

Can anybody spare a dime for science? With the usual funding avenues blocked development-stage companies are turning to research charities.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Pfizer are spinning out all HIV/AIDS-related R&D and marketed drugs into a separate, jointly-controlled company.