Category: European Commission

In principle, the same subject matter shall not be claimed by two patents. Nevertheless, this does not happen so rarely in practice. This is because patent applicants who claim both national protection and protection by a European patent often file a ...

At 07.05.2020 the European IP helpdesk organized a webinar with Prof. Dr. Alexander Wurzer from CEIPI about “IP-Management and Digitization”. The webinar showed the participants the role of IP in business models, especially digital business models, wi ...

At least one third of all inventions are digital, according to data from the European Patent Office. Therefore, it becomes increasingly important to learn how to patent these kinds of digital business objects like use cases, user and customer journeys ...

While the patent policies of standard developing organizations (SDOs) are majorly for standard setting processes, the European Commission (EC) released a guideline for standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing practices on 29 November 2017.