With CNIPA on board of TMview, the tool now contains data from 75 participating offices.
With the addition of more than 32 million trade marks from CNIPA, TMview now provides information and access to more than 96,4 million trade marks in total.
The second study between the EPO and the International Energy Agency looks at low-carbon energy technologies across all sectors of the economy, identifies the leading players and highlights the urgent need to accelerate the pace of innovation.
Every April 26, we celebrate World Intellectual Property Day to learn about the role that intellectual property (IP) rights play in encouraging innovation and creativity.
This year, we're highlighting how smaller businesses can benefit from intellectual property with the theme : "IP and SMEs : taking your ideas to market".
The European Inventor Award will take place on June 17, 2021 and, for the first time in the history of the event, the ceremony will be entirely digital.
The first two common practices - in the areas of examination of unity of invention and designation of the inventor - were endorsed by member states at a meeting of the organisation's Administration Council in December 2020.
This study shows that companies which own at least one patent, registered design or trade mark generate on average 20% higher revenues per employee that companies do not own any of those intellectual property rights (IPRs). Moreover, these IPR-owning companies were found to be paying 19% higher wages on average than other companies.
Worldwide trademark and industrial design-creation activity rose in 2019 even as the number of global patent applications dipped slightly on weaker demand in IP powerhouse China, WIPO's benchmark World Intellectual Property Indicators (WIPI) report showed.
