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EUROPEAN INVENTOR PRIZE AWARDED IN BERLIN

The Berlin European Inventor Award was awarded by the European Patent Office (EPO) for inventors who made ​​an outstanding contribution to the social, technological or economic progress.

Of the six winners, Artur Fischer (94) got the prize for his lifework. He has registered1100 patents over the past 70 years (eg the synchronized flash device). The two Danes Peter Holme Jensen and Claus Helix Nielsen were excellent in the category “Small and medium-sized enterprises” for their effective and inexpensive method of water filtration that works with aquaporin membranes.  Read the Rest

THE LEAD LESSENS IN SPITE OF EUROPES INNOVATION POWER

Munich May 2014: Although Europe continues to bring groundbreaking inventions on the market, the President of the European Patent Office in Munich, Benoît Battistelli, in his article of 20 May 2014 in Handelsblatt warned that the lead is diminishing. Although very strict procurement procedures of the EPA guarantee an actual innovation, thereby granting trivial patents and so-called “patent trolls” are prevented from competing against new economies such as China and South Korea. However, Europe must urgently optimize conditions for venture capital, research, development and invest a greater networking of academic and corporate world. To continue to compete internationally and to catch up on business areas such as digital communication and consumer electronics again, innovation-friendly conditions for companies must be created.

Samsung filed most patent applications to the European Patent Office

Munich, March 2013: For the first time Samsung and, thus, a non-European innovator filed the largest number of European patent applications. With almost 2,300 applications in 2012 Samsung took over Siemens which filed almost 2,200 patent applications. BASF is on the third rank.
The increasing filing activities by non-European applicants such as Samsung is another indicator for the further progress of globalization.