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Software Patents Seminar 15 February 2012

DCU Ryan Academy: Tue, February 07, 2012

Tomkins and the DCU Ryan Academy are co-hosting a seminar on the morning of Wednesday 15th February to discuss the patentability of Software Patents in various territories around the world. We’ll be touching on what can be protected, where, and what the implications of such patents are on innovation as a whole. Networking session to follow. Booking required.

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Budget 2012 - A step towards innovating innovation?

SiliconRepublic.com: Fri, December 09, 2011

The Budget has brought some welcome improvements to Ireland’s R&D tax credit regime including.

Previously if a company was active in R & D in 2003 they could only claim for spend in later years that was above the 2003 level. Now the first 100,000 Euro spend will be allowed irrespective of the 2003 spend. Great news for everyone who was doing R&D in 2003.

It will be open for a company in receipt of R&D tax credits to use a portion of it to reward employees fundamental to the company’s R&D development. The introduction of this reward scheme could go some way to incentivising key employees in R&D, perhaps negating somewhat the knock on negative effects inventors by the abrupt abolition of the patent tax exemption in November 2010.

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€10m Start-Up Fund to Draw Entrepreneurs to Ireland

Enterprise Ireland: Tue, November 29, 2011

Enterprise Ireland has launched a new €10 million Fund to attract entrepreneurs to set-up or relocate to Ireland.

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Finance Bill 2011 Patent Tax Exemption

Department of Finance: Wed, October 19, 2011

The Finance Bill 2011 includes an abolition of the Irish patent tax exemption by removing the exemption from payments made on or after 24 November 2010 see Section 25 (on pages 25 and 26): Finance Bill 2011.

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