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European Innovation Council (EIC) has recently published the first episode of the new podcast series “The game changers: From radical idea to innovative business” that aims to unveil the inner workings of the EIC and how they support European small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups.

Trademarks are a fundamental asset of any successful business, in Cambodia as in any market. Without such intellectual property rights, a competitor could legally use your brand name and logos for themselves.

The Presidents of the Andean Community (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia), have shared their interest in Venezuela, Chile and Argentina to join the group.

Case Law from the General Court (GC). Ed Sheeran facing a copyright infringement claim.

The regulations support the existence of patent linkage in Indonesia. Generic drug approval is therefore subject to patents that are notified to the BPOM. BPOM means Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan (National Agency of Drug and Food Control). We discuss below implementation of relevant regulations.

If you are an EU SME willing to protect your brand in Chile, and you would like to know how to register your trade mark, how to enforce your brand in Chile, stay with us, since today’s blog is about the main changes in Chile for the trade mark system.

With Colombia, the EPO has found another permanent signatory of this international project, making the patent examination and grant procedures much more agile worldwide.

The most recent Amendment to Vietnam’s Law on Intellectual Property was passed by the National Assembly on 16 June 2022.

The Philippines dropped eight spots, to 59th out of 132 economies worldwide, in the World Intellectual Property Organization's annual Global Innovation Index (GII), from 51st position the previous year.

The degree of protection afforded to short word marks is low.
This is one of the key takeaways from The a2 Milk Company Limited v Société des Produits Nestlé S.A., according to Yvonne Tang, director of intellectual property at Drew & Napier in Singapore.

Thanks to the joint efforts of both IP Key Latin America and the EUIPO, the Mexican Institute of IP (IMPI) has just found common grounds with the criteria listed under the EUIPO's Common Communication (CP6) — Convergence on graphic representations of designs - Common Communication.

European IP Helpdesk team is happy to introduce you the ambassador of this month: Merit Fimberg-Espuch from Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

With more than 400 Geographical Indications (GIs) registered, campaign aims to raise awareness of the value and benefits of IP protection through GIs.

Nowadays global trade and exchange of information triggered the creation of a vast number of breakthrough technologies which derived in new fast growing high-tech sectors. Keeping the pace with this exponential evolution at a policy level is a challenge India intends to tackle promptly.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has released the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2022 which shows Singapore as the 7th most innovative nation in the world and the second most innovative in Asia.

WIPO has just published its yearly Global Innovation Index (GII) 2022, now in its 15th Edition. This Index summarizes what is the curent state of the Innovation globally, ranking 132 countries. 

The 2022 edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) has just been published by the European Commission. The scoreboeard shows that innovation performance has increased for the whole EU by about 10% since 2015.

The European Patent Office (EPO) has just published a booklet that aims to provide users of the Unitary Patent with an overview of the most important provisions of the relevant national law in the Member States participating in the Unitary Patent scheme.

Case law from the General Court and recent Court decision over Lindt’s Easter bunny.