This Bulletin issue seeks to gather different expert perspectives and viewpoints on Open Science practices while spotlighting related IP issues and questions.
In this Bulletin issue, we learn more about the European Commission’s motivation and rationale for the Guiding Principles and the Code of Practice cast a glance behind the scenes at the development of the Code of Practice through a Community of Practice and spotlight specific aspects.
Given a widening wealth gap between high and low-income countries, increasing scarcity of resources and unequal access to medicines, novel approaches are needed to ensure intellectual assets and technologies are fully exploited to solve current and future challenges.
The European IP Helpdesk team has joined forces with the Licensing Executive Society International (LESI) and the European Patent Office (EPO) for a special issue of “les Nouvelles”, the official journal of the LESI.
Climate change and environmental degradation are two major threats to human existence and require an urgent and ambitious response.
After a long time in the making, Horizon Europe the European Union’s ninth Framework Programme for Research and Innovation has successfully started this year and the first Calls for Proposals have been launched.
2020 has thrown the world for a loop: COVID-19, its implications and global consequences have been grabbing our attention like little else.
Intellectual Property is not meant to sit on the shelves, but needs to be brought to the market in order to unleash its full economic and societal impact.
Different kinds of intellectual property – whether trademarks, patents, copyright, know-how or design – can be used and exploited in various settings and multiple ways.