The European Commission, in its Communication of 02.07.2014 (COM 2014 – 442 Final) defines Big Data as “large amounts of different types of data produced with high velocity from a high number of various types of sources. Handling today’s highly variable and real-time datasets requires new tools and methods, such as powerful processors, software and algorithms.”.
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Food products made in Italy represent a fundamental component of our economy and contribute considerably to the flow of national exports. However, in supermarkets all over the world, for every authentically Italian product there are several that smuggle up false origins, going to exploit images, denominations and brands that “sound” like Italians.
TRADITIONAL AGRI-FOOD PRODUCTS (PAT) are defined as the agri-food products characteristic of an area and which, in the light of a consolidated and constant local production, deserve to be exploited on the market.
Read MoreSTANDARD ESSENTIAL PATENT (SEPs)
As we all know, innovations, to be patentable, must present a “technical character” or, to be more precise, a “technical teaching”, that is an instruction aimed to solve a particular technical problem.
PATENTS, BIOTECHNOLOGY & ETHICAL ISSUES
Biotechnology covers a wide range of techniques that use living organisms; in particular, the Rio Declaration on Enviroment and Development of 5 June 1992 defines that “Biotechnology means any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivates thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use”.
BLOCKCHAIN & IP
The concept of blockchain technology, presented for the first time in 2008 by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, regards to the possibility of creating a shared and transparent database, able to record and track transactions and resources; initially developed to manage and give evidence of exchanges through bitcoins, a digital currency based on cryptography (cryptocurrency), blockchain is a technology capable of a revolutionary impact on various sectors.
The European Commission, in its Communication of 02.07.2014 (COM 2014 – 442 Final) defines Big Data as “large amounts of different types of data produced with high velocity from a high number of various types of sources. Handling today’s highly variable and real-time datasets requires new tools and methods, such as powerful processors, software and algorithms.”.
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