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The European Patent Organisation will welcome its 38th member state on 1 October 2010.

EPO President Benoît Battistelli highlighted the role the patent system can play in providing information on green technologies in a keynote speech at the DPMA last week.

We are now accepting proposals for the European Inventor Award 2011. The closing date for entries has been extended to 30 September 2010.

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Working Party on Financial Services - Attachés (Supervision) Date: 1st September (14h00) Venue: COUNCIL JUSTUS LIPSIUS BUILDING Rue de la Loi 175, 1048 BRUSSELS

Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on textile names and related labelling of textile products - Political agreement

The third attempt at concluding negotiations on a draft protocol text on international biodiversity access and benefit-sharing will take place in Montreal on 18-21 September, according to official sources. Delegates at the meeting will try to agree on the text, before the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Nagoya, Japan, in October. [...]

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