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- Tuesday, 23.04.2019Breakthrough innovations along with different types of intellectual property (IP) and related IP rights can be found everywhere in the world of tennis, and have been shaping the game from its…
- Thursday, 11.04.2019A Guest Article by Giancarlo Frosio, Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) at the University of Strasbourg. The regulation of…
- Tuesday, 02.04.2019"Artificial intelligence is a new digital frontier that will have a profound impact on the world, transforming the way we live and work": The first report in the new flagship series "WIPO Technology…
- Tuesday, 26.03.2019New copyright rules for the internet: The aim of the new directive just approved by the European Parliament is to ensure that rules applying in the “real” world also apply online. Creatives and news…
- Thursday, 21.03.2019Deadline extended until 30 April 2019: Take part in the recent stakeholder consultation by the European Commission which was launched to evaluate the current EU legislation on design protection. In…
- Monday, 18.03.2019On 6-8 May 2019, the European Patent Office (EPO) will hold its annual "Search Matters" conference in Munich, Germany. The event, which is directed at patent search professionals from business,…
- Monday, 18.03.2019The European Commission has published a ‘Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List’ to highlight websites and marketplaces that undermine the intellectual property rights of EU companies and creators. The…
- Wednesday, 27.02.2019After the successful completion of the previous funding period, a new consortium of four partners now takes up its work for the next contractual term of the European Intellectual Property (IP)…
- Friday, 21.12.2018With the translations of our lately-realised IPR Chart on "Community Plant Variety Protection", and our last IP Guide on "Trade mark and design searches", we have, thus, completed our translation…
- Friday, 21.12.2018232 participants (coordinators and project/financial managers) from 147 ITN projects participated in the full-day event, as well as representatives from National Contact Points and the European…
- Friday, 21.12.2018On 18 December 2018, the European Commission launched a public consultation on design protection in the EU. This public consultation aims to gather the views of those affected by design protection in…
- Tuesday, 11.12.2018The World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) annual World Intellectual Property Indicators report (WIPI) shows that global demand for IP tools reached record heights again in 2017. China…
- Monday, 10.12.2018We are pleased to announce that we have developed two publications in cooperation with the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO). Check out our: new Fact Sheet on "Plant variety protection" (here…
- Monday, 10.12.2018EU certification marks relate to the guarantee of specific characteristics of certain products and/or services. This makes the EU certification mark a perfect tool for certification bodies, as it is…
- Thursday, 06.12.2018Plant breeding is protracted and expensive and the resulting plant varieties can be easily and quickly reproduced by others by means of simple multiplication of plant material. Therefore, in order to…
- Monday, 03.12.2018Among the eight finalists representing the best of European industrial and product design, the winners of this year’s DesignEuropa Awards were announced in an exciting ceremony which took place in…
- Tuesday, 27.11.2018The International Trademark Association (INTA) recently unveiled Brand & New, a “first-of-its-kind” podcast produced by INTA which focuses on the impact of innovation on intellectual property (IP…
- Tuesday, 27.11.2018The European Patent Office (EPO) has launched the beta version of Espacenet, its online patent search database containing more than 100 million patent documents. The new version aims at enriching…
- Tuesday, 20.11.2018The official draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the UK from the EU was released last week. Regarding intellectual property (IP), as already foreseen in the no-deal scenario, EU IP rights will…
- Tuesday, 20.11.2018Since 19 November 2018 the old interface is no longer available. The new Hague System E-Filing simplifies the filing and managing process of on-line international design applications. It is modern,…