Category: Institutions

Since 2018 I3PM supports the European Patent Office in the non-academic training in the area of IP Management. The cooperation started with the creation of three asynchronous courses about IP strategy, IP evaluation and protection and IP value extract ...

Knowledge about IP management is becoming more and more important for the success of SMEs during the fourth industrial revolution, but many SMEs and startups still do not utilize it to its full extent. This is not only caused by a lack of resources, b ...

In a modern knowledge driven economy, it becomes more and more important not only to do high level research, but to further identify the most relevant ideas for innovation and technology transfer. With this also smaller economies can use the chances o ...

The High-growth Technology Business (HTB) community is an initiative to support business decision makers in SMEs by raising awareness about the relevance of intellectual property for their business. The High-growth Technology Business initiative regul ...

Global technology transfer is still a major challenge in a wide range of technology areas. There are several challenges that arise when transferring technology especially from universities to industry. One challenge is that technology transfer between ...

High-growth technology businesses are typically small and medium-sized enterprises or start-ups that bring innovation, employment and productivity to traditional as well as new industry sectors. These businesses are a major driver of Europe’s ec ...

Commercialization of IP assets is not only relevant for technology and manufacturing companies, but increasingly also for digital companies, because their products and services are relying on digital, easy to copy goods and business models. Therefore, ...

The HTBC initiative of the EPO organized on Tuesday 13th September a seminar on “Software and patents in medtech: boosting your growth as SME”. It was designed as an event with expert keynots, case study presentations and discussions on the role of IP ...

On Tuesday 13th September the High-growth technology business community (HTBC) initiative organizes the seminar on “Software and patents in medtech: boosting your growth as SME”. The HTBC event is powered by the EPO in cooperation with the CEIPI IP bu ...

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 ...