On their annual meeting in Incheon (South Korea), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the China National Intellectual…

The idea behind the EPO's Strategic Plan is to create "a roadmap for achieving a more sustainable patent office for Europe, better equipped to succeed in an evolving IP landscape" said EPO President…

The IPA4SME call has been re-opened on 8 July 2019, given the overwhelming response to the first cut-off date of the IPA4SME Action, and the initially allocated budget not being sufficient to provide…

The European Commission recently published an independent expert report identifying “100 radical innovation breakthroughs for the future”.  Combining machine learning algorithms and human evaluation…

The European Union and Mercosur states - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay – reached on 28th June a political agreement for an ambitious, balanced and comprehensive trade deal. The goal of…

At its very basic level, trade mark law is about how the public buy products and their interaction with brands. After all, a trade mark is defined as a sign which distinguishes the products…

The European Commission (EC) has published the 2019 editions of the European Innovation Scoreboard and Regional Innovation Scoreboard at the beginning of the week. Both show that the EU's innovation…

On the basis of the report published earlier this year by WIPO on the technology trends in Artificial Intelligence (AI), the UKIPO decided to publish a report focusing on the same technology trends,…

On the 12th of June the European Commission published its latest report on the implementation progress in the fives areas addressed by Recommendation 2011/711/EU (organisation and funding of the…

On 6-7 June 2019, the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) Spain held their annual meeting 2019 in the city of Málaga, Andalusia. For the Spanish European IP Helpdesk ambassadors, the event included a…

Professor Daniel Gervais, Director of the Intellectual Property Programme at Vanderbilt Law School, has recently published an in-depth article reviewing the application of IP rights (copyright,…

Congratulations! 25 years after the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) was founded as a decentralised agency of the EU, the 2 millionth EU trade mark application marks an important…

This new interactive tool intends to be a bridge for secured communications between rights holders, EU enforcement authorities and the EU Commission, as well as other delegations located outside the…

Are you: Generating high-quality research, and eager to improve its impact on the market?  Trying to better address IP issues associated with commercialisation?  Searching for experts who can help…

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are often said to be the backbone of the European economy. However, a large proportion of their contribution to growth and job creation is in fact generated…

Beyond offering the opportunity to enforce monopoly rights, intellectual property can also be used to add value to a business and open up new revenue streams. Putting in place a sensible IP…

More than wine, cheese and asparagus: Geographical Indications (GI) protect local goods and traditional production processes against imitation and misuse. A new research project of the German Max…

The European IP Helpdesk team is proud to present a new way of supporting the active IP capacity building for our users. Core topics from our training schedule will be made available as eLearning…

The European IP Helpdesk teamed up with 4iP Council, a European not-for-profit dedicated to developing high quality academic insight and empirical evidence on topics related to intellectual property…

Good news in the fight against cybersquatting. EURid (the official EU designated .eu and .ею domain names' administrator) and the EUIPO have launched a new service that will help EU trade mark owners…