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New EPO study on recycling technologies for plastics
The European Patent Office has published a new study entitled ”Patents for tomorrow’s plastics -Global innovation trends in recycling, circular design and alternative sources”, concerning the analysis of patents trends and statistics over the period 2010-2019 that are...
Academic Research Program by European Patent Office EPO
The European Patent Office has published its call for proposals for Academic Research Programme (ARP): the EPO will support collaborative research with scientific partner institutions.Under the programme, grants of up to EUR 150 000 will be awarded per research area...
Economic impact of COVID-19 crisis in IPR-intensive industries
A recent research study carried out by EUIPO analyses the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis on industries that use intellectual property rights (IPRs) including trade marks, designs, patents and copyright, intensively. Although IPR-intensive industries have...
New EPO-IEA study highlights need to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies
A new joint study published by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows that the number of patents for inventions related to low-carbon energy technologies around the world grew by an average rate of 3.3% per year in the 2017-19...
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
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 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...
Addressing climate challenges with innovation. WIPO GREEN guide for youth roundtables
A recent guide published by WIPO specifically designed for new generations aims to arise a discussion on how innovation and Intellectual Property can provide answers to the climate change crisis. Created to facilitate group discussions and inspire action, the guide...
ETRIA World Conference “TRIZ Future” 2021 “Creative solutions for a sustainable development”
Bozen, Free University of Bozen DATES: 22-24 September 2021 LOCATION: Free University of Bozen, Bozen, Italy and online APPROACH: by live and online (hybrid approach)The ETRIA World Conference “TRIZ Future” 2021 “Creative solutions for a sustainable development” will...
Farewell Professor Umberto Cugini
Founder Partners of the Italian Center of Competence mourn Professor Umberto Cugini (1941 – 2021) which in the first days of January passed away. Professor Cugini was the promoter of the Center and its President. Degree in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di...
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