europe s different ip cultures

... ACRONYMS IAS IASB IC ICM IFRS IGE INPI IP IPCG IPM IPO IPR LES LESI LMA NPV OD OECD OHIM OUR PCT PE PHARE PRV PVF R&D RDA ROI SIAE SIPO SRL SRPC TPM TRIPS TRL UIBM UKIPO USPTO USTR VC WIPO WTO ... construction still in progress Legislators can only use non -IP- specific provisions of the EC treaty (mainly Arts 308 and 95) as a basis for their IP Regulations and Directives This is of course ... in this book is accurate at the time of going to press, and the publishers and authors cannot accept responsibility for any errors or omissions, however caused No responsibility for loss or damage...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 05:20

... milling are net feedstock costs; feedstock costs for U .S sugarcane and sugar beets are gross feedstock costs 3/ Excludes transportation costs 4/ Average of published estimates Estimates of capital expenditure ... sucrose content of sugar beets and the process that removes sugar from sugar beets In all sugar beet plants, the diffusion system (reverse osmosis) is used to remove sugar from sliced sugar beets ... costs were based upon sugar beet processing costs plus charges for yeast and denaturant expenses Crystallization expense savings would be somewhat offset by increased fermentation expenses Using...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 05:20

... milling are net feedstock costs; feedstock costs for U .S sugarcane and sugar beets are gross feedstock costs 3/ Excludes transportation costs 4/ Average of published estimates Estimates of capital expenditure ... sucrose content of sugar beets and the process that removes sugar from sugar beets In all sugar beet plants, the diffusion system (reverse osmosis) is used to remove sugar from sliced sugar beets ... costs were based upon sugar beet processing costs plus charges for yeast and denaturant expenses Crystallization expense savings would be somewhat offset by increased fermentation expenses Using...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

... glasses or prescription lenses; a speech impairment; stomach problems; high blood pressure; a blow to the head, head injury or trauma severe enough to cause loss of consciousness or memory loss ... most consistently statistically significant main effects are ear problems, respiratory diseases, and rare diseases Especially for major illness, transmission into poorer adult health appears ... Barker diseases There is no strong evidence that this American disease excess differs across age and gender since the US interactions with these variables are not generally statistically significant...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:20

... P1: GSR WANG summarizes the strengths and weaknesses of different exposure indices Section is an overview of the economic assessments of the costs associated with lost yields Section makes recommendations ... research is also needed on plant defensive responses, canopy-scale conductances, and plant response, including effects on photosynthesis (29) As is discussed in the next section, some of this ... methodologies and estimated dose-response relationships, Crop Sci 30:148–55 50 Olszyk D, Thompson CR, Poe MP 1988 Crop loss assessment for California: modeling losses with different ozone standard scenarios...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 19:20

... country studies have not only suggested some possible answers to interesting questions, but have also uncovered some new questions for consideration in future PISA assessments The lessons suggested ... in PISA 2009 Results Volume IV ) The purposes of assessments vary greatly across countries At the school level, these assessments can be used by schools to compare themselves to other schools, ... uncommon in Slovenia, Belgium, Spain, Austria and Germany, where less than half of students attend schools that use standardised tests for assessments In contrast, the use of standardised tests is practically...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:22

... themselves with the thought that radical action was not necessary, as the institution would of itself soon pass away Legislatures passed laws facilitating manumission,[1] many southerners emancipated ... who enlisted among the helpers of the African slaves was Chief Justice Sewall, of Massachusetts In 1701 he stirred his section by publishing his _Selling of Joseph_, a distinctly anti-slavery ... classes: first, masters who desired to increase the economic efficiency of their labor supply; second, sympathetic persons who wished to help the oppressed; and third, zealous missionaries who,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 18:20

... of Physician Assistants: Physician Assistant Programs [http://www.aapa.org/education-and-certification/ physician-assistant-programs] American Academy of Physician Assistants: Summaries of State ... restricted supervision requirements existed for the three states with the lowest rates of PAs per 100 000 persons in 2007 Mississippi requires on-site presence of a physician for the first 120 days of ... occ1950IPUMS classification, and test both classifications for consistency over time" [28] Thus, we were able to analyze the characteristics of such occupations as physician and PA We analyzed these...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... Multidimensional Assessment of Fatigue (MAF) [21], the Medical Outcomes Study Sleep Scale (MOS-SS) [22], and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) [23] The EQ-5D describes HRQoL across dimensions: ... These results are consistent with other studies reporting substantial health status limitations among FM patients [29,30] and that FM patients have worse SF-36 scores on the subscales of physical ... of FM severity on HRQoL, symptom domains (such as, pain, sleep, depression), and productivity loss for patients and caregivers Methods Study Design This cross-sectional, observational study included...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... risk fac­ tors, and psychological stressors.6-13 Given these occupational risks, 37 U .S states and Canadian provinces provide benefits to firefighters in whom certain cardiovascular diseases ... data Using the chi-square goodness-of-fit test, we assessed whether the distribution of actual deaths associated with each duty was the same as that of expected deaths, based on the estimates of ... for these findings is the increased cardiovascular demand of fire suppression.8,11 The risk of coronary heart disease events during fire suppression may be increased because Duty Dis cus sion Table...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20

... was one of the wisest possible uses of wealth It strikes at the prevention of disease by penetrating into its causes Several others have established such laboratories, but the need for them is ... these or for kindred esthetic purposes as being useless as far as the mass of the people and their needs are concerned As with libraries and museums, so with these more distinctively artistic ... moderate sums to leave to members of the family; what is modest, unostentatious living; what is the test of extravagance There must be different standards for different conditions The answer is that...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 12:20

... Coefficients (Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States) = Annual Gross CO2 Emissions Step Reduce Annual Gross CO2 Emissions (Step 2) by percent to assume 99 percent burn factor Annual Btu Consumption ... (Step 2) times CO2 Coefficients (Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States) = Annual Gross CO2 Emissions 27 1998 Annual Consumption for cogenerators is adjusted to exclude fuel not used ... Challenge participants, but the United States counts only a fraction of these reported reductions in comprehensive assessments of overall reductions in greenhouse gases.21 The largest reductions claimed...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 02:20

... patterns of drug resistance across more countries, analyze the determinants of transmission of drug resistance across national boundaries, and assess how those determinants are progressing Individuals ... ria such as ECO and MRSA have high proportions (60– 80%) of resistant strains, whereas the prevalence of resistant strains for others such as PMI is quite low Almost all but MSSA and PMI have shown ... for infectious diseases, sometimes manifold, as well as increasing morbidity and mortality from such diseases [16-23] The greatest long-term threat of AMR is that resistant strains erode drug efficacy...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... assets (e.g., mortgage-backed securities) as well as Treasurys Yet these drastic actions have not stimulated new bank lending The huge increase in base money is now lodged as excess reserves ... July 2008, the stock of so-called base money in the U .S banking system has virtually tripled As part of its rescue mission in the crisis and to drive interest rates down, the Fed has bought many ... interest rates on dollar assets close to zero and—over the past year—applied downward pressure on long rates through the so-called quantitative easing measures to increase purchases of Treasury...

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2012, 16:53

... class consciousness through survey instruments These problems are serious ones, and potentially undermine the value of questionnaire studies of class consciousness My assumption, however, is that ... models of class consciousness, it will be useful to examine the extent to which the overall relationship between 220 Class counts class locations and class consciousness is consistent with the basic ... choice situations, which in the case of class consciousness would imply above all situations of class struggle There is no necessary reason to assume that these subjective states will be the same...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... coastal resources such as wetlands, floodplains, estuaries, barrier islands and coral reefs, as well as fish and wildlife using those habitats An interesting feature of the CZMA is that participation ... pressures of over-development of coastal resources and land-use conflicts in US coastal areas.40 The CZMA encourages US states (including Alaska) to preserve, protect and where possible restore ... Islands On both occasions, the arrests related to illegal fishing for Patagonian toothfish This is the first time Australia has sought to enforce its fishery laws offshore its Antarctic territories;...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20