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- Tuesday, 07.04.2020In order to sweeten these difficult home office times, we doubled all IP training web sessions of the first half of 2020 and added new topics to the curriculum which we have been asked for by our…
- Tuesday, 07.04.2020As of 6 April 2020, IP Australia has made its trade mark data available to the TMview search tool. With IP Australia on board, the tool now contains data from 74 participating offices providing…
- Monday, 30.03.2020On 20 March 2020, Germany’s constitutional court has ruled that the nation's ratification of a long-planned Unified Patent Court (UPC), which would create a single legislature for the whole of Europe…
- Wednesday, 25.03.2020A new report released yesterday by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) estimates the total value of…
- Tuesday, 24.03.2020Copyright exists automatically in original creative works without the need of official registration. It grants authors moral and economic rights, including lengthy protection from unauthorised…
- Monday, 23.03.2020Behind every video game, there is an intricate bundle of technical and non-technical IP rights. Against the background of a rapidly evolving design, development and commercialisation landscape,…
- Monday, 23.03.2020There is a new free online e-learning course designed to introduce researchers and students to entrepreneurship and guide them through the main steps of how to validate the business potential of…
- Monday, 23.03.2020A newly published guide by the European Patent Office (EPO) gives you an overview of the measures available to protect patent rights across the EPC contracting states along with the relevant national…
- Tuesday, 17.03.2020Applications welcome from startups and SMEs with innovative solutions to tackle Coronavirus outbreakThe European Commission is calling for startups and SMEs with technologies and innovations that could help in treating, testing, monitoring or other aspects of the Coronavirus outbreak to apply…
- Thursday, 12.03.2020The demand for European patents continues to grow: The European Patent Office (EPO) has now published its Patent Index 2019 reveiling interesting figures regarding patent applications and trends in…
- Monday, 09.03.2020The Community Plant Variety Rights (CPVR) system is the largest and most efficient regional system for plant variety rights’ protection in the world. Over the past 25 years, the Community Plant…
- Monday, 09.03.2020The Horizon Impact Award is the European Commission's initiative to recognise and celebrate outstanding projects that have used their results to provide value for society. These projects must have…
- Monday, 02.03.2020According to the IP business media platform IAM, the UK government has confirmed that the UK is not planning on becoming a member of the Unified Patent Court system - despite the country’s…
- Monday, 02.03.2020The Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement - adopted in May 2015 - on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications has now officially entered into force. It allows the international registration…
- Monday, 02.03.2020Last year, fewer patents were registered with the German Patent and Trademark Office compared to 2018. With 67,437 filings, the number is 0.7% lower than in 2018, the office announced in Munich on…
- Tuesday, 25.02.2020The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has received more than 250 responses to its call for public comment on a Draft Issues Paper on Intellectual Property Policy and Artificial…
- Tuesday, 25.02.2020The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published the latest standard in its innovation management series. ISO 56000 ("Innovation management – Fundamentals and vocabulary"), is…
- Tuesday, 25.02.2020The European Commission is currently running a brief study on the European IP Helpdesk's and international IP Helpdesks' websites. We would very much appreciate if you could take a couple of minutes…
- Monday, 24.02.2020Artificial Intelligence (AI) is developing fast. It will change our lives by improving healthcare (e.g. making diagnosis more precise, enabling better prevention of diseases), increasing the…
- Friday, 21.02.2020Now in their third edition, the DesignEuropa Awards celebrate excellence in design and design management among Registered Community Design (RCD) holders. Organised every two years by the European…