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THE ICC INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY ROADMAP
Current and emerging issues
for business and policymakers
The ICC Intellectual Property Roadmap sponsors
Key sponsor
Sponsors
2017 Table of contents
THE ICC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ROADMAP
Table of Contents
Preface ..... 4
Acknowledgements ........ 6
Intellectual property basics ....... 1
Developments having an impact on intellectual property ..... 9
A. Creating value from intellectual property ........16
I. Managing intellectual property assets to create value 16
II. Licensing ..18
1. General issues .........18
2. Specific situations ....22
2.1 Collective administration and licensing of copyrights 22
2.2 Patents and standards ..........23
III. Valuation and monetisation of intellectual property assets ....25
B. Obtaining intellectual property assets .28
I. Patents ......28
1. Patent office cooperation and substantive patent law harmonisation .........28
2. Patent quality ...........30
3. Patentability of new uses .....31
4. The work on the patent system in Europe ...32
5. Language considerations.....34
II. Designs .....35。