On the sidelines of the PATLIB2022 conference held online on May 12 and 13, the EPO officially announced the entry of the Monegasque Information Center into the PATLIB network, which includes some 330 centers in 37 countries.
Every April 26, we celebrate World Intellectual Property Day to keep us informed about the role of intellectual property rights in fostering innovation and creativity.
This year's theme is "IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future".
The Industrial Property Office of the Business Development Agency of the Principality of Monaco (MCIPO) has published a practice paper on the examination of absolute grounds for refusal for figurative trade marks with purely descriptive words/expressions
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.
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".
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.
WIPO has launched the Roving Webinar series, a recent intiative aiming at bringing WIPO services and initiatives closer to the stakeholders in developed countries.
The next live session will take place on Octobre 1st, 2020, at 10.00 a.m. (CEST).
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.
