Month: September 2020

Some entrepreneurs and start-ups, particularly at the early stages of setting up a business, find it hard to get the financial backing necessary to take their innovative ideas off the ground. Others, often due to lack of familiarity with the topic, fail to see the benefits of protecting intellectual property when deciding to take their […]...

The EUIPO will be holding the online sessions of the 15th Liaison Meeting on Cooperation, 24th Liaison Meeting on Trade Marks and 19th Liaison Meeting on Designs from 6 to 8 October 2020....

Experts from the European Union Intellectual Property Network (EUIPN) are meeting virtually for the 9th European Cooperation Projects (ECP) working groups....

The EUIPO and the European Digital SME Alliance, have signed a collaboration agreement to develop and implement joint initiatives to support small and medium enterprises (SME). ...

On 25 September, Mr Shen Changyu, Commissioner of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) and Mr Christian Archambeau, Executive Director of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) held a virtual high-level meeting to discuss IP cooperation matters, namely to review the state of play of the bilateral cooperation activities with CNIPA, the IP Key [&helli...

In the framework of the EUIPO-WIPO Work Programme 2020, the Smart Button feature is now active in both DesignView and WIPO’s Global Design Database. This enables users to search in one tool and then conduct the same search in the other tool, without the need to enter the search criteria again....

The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and Accountancy Europe have signed a collaboration agreement in order to provide guidance and promote the benefits of Intellectual Property (IP) registration to SMEs....

The Academy is pleased to announce the Tuesday Webinar live broadcasts scheduled for October 2020....

As a result of the joint efforts of the CP11 Working Group members, MS IPOs, User Associations and non-EU IPOs, the final drafts of both work streams of the CP11: New types of marks – examination of formal requirements and grounds for refusal were approved in the Extended Working Group meetings which took place virtually […]...