Industrial designs are not as common as other IP rights, such as patents or trade marks. Nevertheless, the protection of industrial designs is particularly important for certain industrial sectors, namely textile, furniture, toy and automotive. They are progressively becoming imp...
For most businesses, intangible assets represent more than 50% of the value of the enterprise. The most significant group of intangible assets are those protected by intellectual property such as inventions, designs and brands. Since they form such a large part of the overall val...
This report is based on an analysis of the 30 most frequently pirated creative works in each of the EU Member States, including 316 films, 500 music artists and 309 TV series. The data on consumption of pirated content was purchased from MUSO, a leading commercial provider of suc...
Nowadays, the value of a business is increasingly linked to its intellectual property (IP) assets, which are becoming more important in many sectors. IP can be transferred or licensed, offered to enter into cooperation agreements or contributed as capital in a joint venture. Prot...
This report examines copyright and patent protection in Europe for AI-assisted outputs in general and in three priority domains: science (in particular, meteorology), media (journalism), and pharmaceutical research. It comprises an assessment of the state of the art of uses of AI...
The COVID-19 crisis that raged across the world in 2020 has demonstrated that pandemics generate urgent and massive needs for access to medical and related technologies, also in the EU with advanced public health systems. Ensuring availability of diagnostics, medicines and (futur...
