Translation of "droit de propriété industrielle " (French → English) :

For the purposes of this Directive, the term "intellectual property rights" includes industrial property rights.

For the purposes of this Directive, the term ‘intellectual property rights’ includes industrial property rights.

There are many other aspects that we have revised from the Commission's initial proposal, such as, for example, the reduction of procedures and costs for the applicant, in order to speed up and guarantee respect for their intellectual property rights; the simplification of the guarantees to be provided by the applicant in the event of defending their industrial or intellectual property rights; the establishment of compensation in the event of an infringement of industrial or intellectual property and, finally, considerations relating to the destruction of objects used for counterfeiting or the counterfeit objects themselves.

In reply to Mr Fiori, who spoke before me, the inclusion of industrial property is important, and in the case of Spain in particular, since the Spanish legislation in the field of trademarks and patents is considered industrial property rather than intellectual property.

For the purposes of this Directive, the term "intellectual property rights" includes industrial property rights.

Aid to cover the costs of obtaining and validating licences and other industrial property rights is exempted from the notification requirement up to an amount equivalent to that of the aid to research and development which could have been allocated to the research activities leading to the award of the industrial property rights in question.