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ALLEA Standing Committee IPR: Symposium “Intellectual Property Rights in the European Research Area", 4 - 7 November 2009, Budapest
05-11-2009
Joseph Straus, member of the ALLEA Standing Committee Intellectual Property, chaired on 4 November 2009 the agenda-setting workshop which was organised in honour of Sir Roger Elliot, Chair of the Committee, who is now stepping down. The symposium, held at the Hungarian Patent Office, was organised by ALLEA, invited by the World Science Forum, and sponsored by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the host, the Hungarian Patent Office. The perspectives for the some of the most challenges areas of Academy intervention in the IPR domain were presented by the ALLEA Executive Director during the World Science Forum closing plenary session in the Hungarian Parliament.