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The Maryland Intellectual Property Legal Resource Center (MIPLRC),
which offers free legal services on intellectual property and related
matters to entrepreneurs and emerging technology companies and explores
relevant legal, ethical and policy issues in the high technology and
intellectual property areas, is moving to the University of Maryland,
College Park on September 1, university officials announce today. The
center, a joint initiative of the University of Maryland School of Law,
the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, and now
the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech), will be
headquartered at the Technology Advancement Program (TAP) incubator, the
state's first business incubator established in 1985. MIPLRC's legal
services will be available at no charge to university faculty and
students, as well as to regional entrepreneurs and startup companies.
"One of the most common obstacles confronting entrepreneurs is an
inability to properly protect their intellectual property and legal
rights due to lack of knowledge or lack of funds," says Patricia
Campbell, Law School Associate Professor and MIPLRC Director. "MIPLRC
helps to eliminate those obstacles, and relocating to TAP will bring the
center's valuable services directly to the vibrant community of
technology entrepreneurs at the University of Maryland."

*Source:* Reuters

Woods Bagot's Qatar Science and Technology Park has won the LEAF award
for International Building of the Year as well as the prestigious
overall 2009 LEAF award.

Part of Qatar Foundation's Education City, the aesthetically striking
QSTP hosts technology centres of some of the world's leading companies.

Peter Miglis, design director for Woods Bagot Australia, said: "QSTP is
a place that is intrinsically shaped and crafted through the unique
culture of Qatar and an understanding of the realities of the
environmental context. QSTP exceeds Qatar's aspirations of combining
knowledge and research in a global arena."

Source: architectureanddesign.com.au