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- 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…
- Thursday, 20.02.2020The European Patent Office (EPO) has released a series of expert statements recorded at the 2019 High-Growth Technology Business Conference in Dublin in November 2019. This conference, jointly held…
- Monday, 10.02.2020Plagiarisms and counterfeits are neither a compliment nor harmless trivialities.Often produced cheaply and under inhuman working conditions, they sometimes cause damage to innovative manufacturers…
- Monday, 10.02.2020News from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO): The Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances gained a key 30th member, allowing entry into force of the international agreement…
- 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…