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WIPO – The future of Transportation
On 6 February, WIPO published the new report on technology trends ‘The future of Transportation’. In the study, patent information related to 1,1 million of patent families related to the transportation topic and published between 2000 and 2023 are integrated with...
SME Fund – EUIPO
Also for 2025, the European Commission thanks to the EUIPO and national patent offices promote the SME Fund, offering economic support to EU SMEs for registering IP Rights such as trademarks, industrial designs, and patents for invention.For the 2025 edition, EU SMEs...
Open Call for Innovative Projects for reducing pollutants in water ecosystems
Starting from 16 February, the European INTERREG IPA Adrion Project Mission4Water has published an Open Call for Innovative Projects: Contributing to the development of sustainable and scalable solutions for reducing pollutants in water ecosystems! The Open call aims...
New EPO study – Mapping investors for European innovators
In collaboration with the EPO’ Observatory on Patents and Technology, EPO has just published the new report ‘‘Mapping investors for European innovators’ . Recognizing the strategic importance of investors and funders for the success and the launch on the market of new...
EPO Code Fest -A challenge for coders!
Following the edition on generative AI that has just closed in December 2024, EPO launches a new challenge: EPO CODE FEST to classify patent data for a sustainable future, that is a competition to develop an automated system for classifying patent data based on its...
Intellectual Property Rights and performances of the EU firms
EPO and EUIPO have just published the updated edition for 2025 of the report concerning the correlation between the performances of the EU firms and IP rights.The study entitled Intellectual property rights and firm performance in the European Union – 2025 edition...
WIPO Green to fight against plastic pollution
WIPO Green publishes the article 'Beating Plastics Pollution Through Global Cooperation and Innovation' on the fight against plastic pollution. The article cites various studies and investigations on the current consumption of plastic material, the quantities of...
EPO Report on patents against cancer
The European Patent Office-EPO has published the statistical report 'Patents and innovation against cancer' on patents for the fight against cancer. The report is also released with the aim of contributing to the Sustainable Development Goal SDG 3-Health and Wellbeing...
WIPO statistic report 2023
WIPO has published statistics for 2023 regarding IP titles at an international level. Regarding international PCT patent applications, for the first time in 14 years, there was a slight decrease in the number of filings of international PCT applications, 272,600...
Stimulating University-Industry collaboration
At the beginning of March, the European Commission published in the form of recommendations two codes of practice for University-Industry co-creation and citizen involvement initiatives on the issues of knowledge valorization. This is a set of indications to follow in...
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