June is the Pride month in many countries all over the world, dedicated to celebrations of the struggles and achievements of LGBTQIA+ individuals and the European Patent Office has also paid tribute to the importance and beauty of diversity by displaying its rainbow logo on its website and social media as well as on their headquarters throughout June.
The SME Fund established by the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) for the year 2024 offers European and Ukrainian small and medium enterprises the opportunity to benefit from cost reductions in several fields of Intellectual Property and is articulated in four parts.
The Unitary Patent (UP) system came into force on 1 June 2023 and since then the European Patent Office (EPO) has been receiving a significant, steadily increasing, flow of requests for unitary effect by patent proprietors wishing to benefit from this new form of protection.
Our Manuela Bruscolini has recently moderated a table topic on the relationship between IP and tennis called GAME- SET- MATCH- The Winning Power of Intellectual Property in Tennis on the occasion of the INTA annual conference held in Atlanta from 18 May 2024 to 22 May 2024.
One year has passed since the start of the Unitary Effect for European patents, and an increasing number of patentees are choosing this path rather than validation in the countries of interest.
