Workshop on the “Exchange of good practices between the Greek and the French mobility networks” Athens, 20 June 2006 E. Manoussou Head, Communication Dept. OBI

INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY ORGANISATION MAIN COMPETENCES RELATED TO THE ERA-MORE NETWORK Granting various national industrial property protection titles for inventions & designs Operation as a receiving office for European & International patent (and design) applications Patent Information Dissemination

TECHNOLOGICAL INFORMATION FROM PATENTS Technical – scientific Bibliographical Legal (legal status, duration of validity of a patent etc) Commercial (knowledge about the movements of the competition etc) Information, included in a patent It is:

SPECIAL SERVICES THAT OBI OFFERS TO THE RESEARCHERS THROUGH THE ERA-MORE NETWORK services’ priorities personal advice on patent protection issues special “page” in the office’s site + technological information FREE OF CHARGE

THE TECHNOLOGICAL INFORMATION IS USEFUL / NECESSARY FOR THE REARCHERS saves time & money, avoiding research in already “discovered” fields takes knowledge about the current technological level in his field avoids infringements of patent rights takes knowledge about the competition has the opportunity to create collaboration, aiming at technology transfer agreements 80% of the technological information is being found in the patents A researcher, using the benefits of the patent information :

HOW IS THIS TECHNOLOGICAL INFORMATION PROVIDED ? OBI provides Technological Information (presearch) free of charge ONLY to the researchers - members of the Greek ERA- MORE NETWORK. Relevant applications, will be forwarded from EKETA (bridgehead Organisation of the Greek Network) to OBI. In a next stage, special member cards will be issued from OBI, with the collaboration of EKETA, in order to provide its special services.