One of the most successful intellectual property conferences organised by the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property, known as AIPPI, has ended with a tremendously positive response from...
We are thrilled to announce that after months of intensive work, our new corporate identity and redesigned web site has just become a fact. Our aim was to change our corporate...
In the meeting of the Committee on Patent Law, the Office and the representatives of the 38 EPO Contracting States, together with the European Commission as observer, had a first...
In 2018, businesses and inventors continued to file large numbers of patent applications at the EPO, with the five top filing regions - Europe, the US, Japan, China and the...
The number of patent applications filed with the European Patent Office (EPO) grew by 4.6% last year, reaching a new high of 174 317 (2017: 166 594). The EPO's Annual...
As a follow-up to its "Patenting Blockchain" conference, the European Patent Office (EPO) has published a conference report entitled "Talking about a new revolution: blockchain" to provide insight into the...
A study published today, 6 November 2018, by the European Patent Office (EPO) reveals that innovation in self-driving vehicles (SDV) is accelerating fast and finds that patent protection strategies in...
Forty years ago, on 20th of December the EPO published its first European patent application, EP 0 000 001. Filed by the European Atomic Energy Community, the application related to...
