Topic: Europe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. and British patent offices are working on a plan to have patent examiners in the two countries share research as a way to reduce a several-years backlog of applications, the two agencies said on Wednesday. Companies -- especially high tech ones -- have complained about the length of time it takes to get a patent, an average ...
German publisher Axel Springer AG said Wednesday that net income fell 45 percent in 2009 to euro314 million ($427 million), with a drop in demand for newspapers and magazines mitigated only partially by new Internet revenues. The publisher of Germany's Bild daily, the country's largest ...
At least three Swedish newspapers on Wednesday published a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog after an alleged plot to murder the artist who created it was uncovered in Ireland. The controversial drawing by Swedish artist Lars Vilks was printed in Stockholm ...
