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- Thursday, 06.02.2020How can SMEs use intellectual property to their advantage? And how can they adapt their business models and develop the IP management capabilities they need? As part of a book about how today’s…
- Thursday, 06.02.2020Following a meeting about the preparations to implement the Unitary Patent package, the President of the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Chair and members of the executive group of the Unified…
- Thursday, 06.02.2020Following their adoption by the Executive Director of the European Union Intellectual Property Office on 12 December 2019, the newest edition of the Guidelines for Examination of EU Trademarks and…
- Tuesday, 28.01.2020Artificial intelligence has entered into the sphere of creativity and ingenuity. Recent headlines refer to paintings produced by machines, music performed or composed by algorithms or drugs…
- Monday, 27.01.2020Members of the five largest IP offices (IP5) – the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the China National Intellectual…
- Monday, 27.01.2020The European Patent Office (EPO) has published first results from its Academic Research Programme with new insights into the patent system. The Programme was launched in 2017 to encourage more…
- Wednesday, 22.01.2020Unlike other creative industries, video games draw on the worlds of both technology and creativity. In this IP-intensive industry, IP rights are associated both with the tools used to develop games…
- Wednesday, 15.01.2020The European Commission has published its biannual Report on the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights in third countries (Third Country Report). The Third Country Report…
- Tuesday, 14.01.2020Every year, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) carries out a satisfaction survey to identify goals and priorities for improvement, as well as to assess how satisfied users are…
- Friday, 20.12.20197.5% of SMEs that own EU trade marks (EUTMs) licensed them to others between 2013-2017, according to a new EUIPO report. The average annual revenue from licensing EUTMs during the same period is…
- Monday, 16.12.2019The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has launched a public consultation process on artificial intelligence (AI) and IP policy. The goal is to develop a list of issues concerning the…
- Monday, 16.12.2019The EUIPO recently published its “Online Copyright Infringement in the European Union” report, which is based on data on access to pirated music, film and TV programmes in all 28 Member States for…
- Monday, 16.12.2019After two consultation periods, which aimed at collecting feedback and ideas from stakeholders and the European Commission, the new Strategic Plan 2025 (SP2025) of EUIPO was approved by the…
- Monday, 09.12.2019The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has announced a new artificial intelligence-based technology to search for similar-looking trade marks and designs. eSearch plus uses image…
- Thursday, 05.12.2019Take a look at the central intellectual property needs that a business in one of the six most common clean technology fields will usually face. Wind: uses the motion of wind Solar: uses sunlight…
- Thursday, 05.12.2019Renewable energy is energy from sources that do not diminish or that can be replenished. These are also referred to as “green” or “clean” energies, because the energy production does not generate…
- Monday, 02.12.2019The European Patent Office (EPO) has released the new Espacenet, a substantially revised and improved version of the Office's patent information search tool. New features and enhanced functionality…
- Wednesday, 13.11.2019The EU’s Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation Europol and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) have formally signed an agreement to further increase cooperation in fighting…
- Wednesday, 13.11.2019The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released its 2019 Edition of the World Intellectual Property Report, analysing millions of patent and scientific publication records. According to…
- Monday, 11.11.2019The European Union protects more than 3000 names of specific products – foodstuffs, agricultural products, wines, spirit drinks and aromatised wine products – under one of its EU quality schemes:…