EPO Patent Index 2020

EPO Patent Index 2020

The European Patent Office-EPO has published the annual statistical report on the patent filings. Innovations in Healthcare drove patent activity in 2020: inventions in medical technology achieved the first position (almost 14.300 applications, with an increase of...
Ideas Powered for Business SME Fund

Ideas Powered for Business SME Fund

The European Union Intellectual Property Office-EUIPO, supported by the European Commission has created a fund to help European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to access their intellectual property rights. The grant scheme covers two services: IP diagnostic...
International patent filings by WIPO

International patent filings by WIPO

International patent applications filed at WIPO during 2020 achieve 275.00 and show an increase of 4% in respect of 2019 despite the pandemic emergency. In first position China (68.720 patent applications; +16,1% in respect of the last year), followed by the United...