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This new study published by the EUIPO through the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights looks at EU firms’ simultaneous use of patents, trade marks and registered desig ...Mehr This new study published by the EUIPO through the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights looks at EU firms’ simultaneous use of patents, trade marks and registered designs to protect their innovation. It is based on a sample of more than 63 000 companies across all Member States. The study shows that firms that use multiple IP rights (IPRs) account for a disproportionate share of employment and turnover among the firms in the sample. Larger firms tend to have more IPR bundles than SMEs. Patents are the right most frequently combined with other IPRs. The study also found significant differences in the bundling of IPRs across sectors of the economy, with firms in the manufacturing sector much more likely to bundle IPRs than those in the services sector....Weniger

Schlagwörter: copyright - design - business - patents - ip rights - trademark

Tech Watch looks to the future but with a firm understanding of the past and present and awareness of the impact of technology in society, on businesses and in our lives. This discussion paper prepare ...Mehr Tech Watch looks to the future but with a firm understanding of the past and present and awareness of the impact of technology in society, on businesses and in our lives. This discussion paper prepared with support from the Impact of Technology Expert Group of the Observatory contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the complexity of emerging and disruptive technologies and considers the impact of these technologies in the future protection, infringement and enforcement of intellectual property....Weniger

Schlagwörter: enforcement - ip rights - technology - infringements

The report analyses how companies in the European software sector make use of open-source software (OSS) licences. It puts special focus on how software firms use intellectual property rights (IPR) to ...Mehr The report analyses how companies in the European software sector make use of open-source software (OSS) licences. It puts special focus on how software firms use intellectual property rights (IPR) to protect their business models that rely on OSS licenced software. OSS is now an integral part of software firms’ business models. By embedding OSS into their business models, firms may get strategic benefits related to the wider dissemination of software and a larger knowledge pool they can tap into. They are able to profit from their OSS involvement by combining it with other, proprietary, services and products, complementing OSS. The report shows how informal and formal IP protection methods help firms to convert market opportunities associated with OSS into profitable business models....Weniger

Schlagwörter: software - ip rights - licensing

This new joint EUIPO-Europol report on how IP crime supports the activities of organised criminal gangs adds to the growing evidence that counterfeit goods are an attack against society requiring an i ...Mehr This new joint EUIPO-Europol report on how IP crime supports the activities of organised criminal gangs adds to the growing evidence that counterfeit goods are an attack against society requiring an international response. It demonstrates the interconnection between IPR crime and other types of serious crimes highlighting the links between actors committing these offences. The case studies presented in this report illustrate how a wide range of different crimes are linked to intellectual property crime, including pharmaceutical crime, drug trafficking, manslaughter, illegal arms possession, forced labour, food fraud, excise duty fraud, VAT fraud, corruption and money laundering....Weniger

Schlagwörter: organised crime - counterfeiting - enforcement - infringements - police

This report brings together the findings of the research carried out in recent years by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), through the European Observatory on the Infringement of ...Mehr This report brings together the findings of the research carried out in recent years by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), through the European Observatory on the Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights (Observatory), on the extent, scope and consequences —both economic and non-economic— of Intellectual Property Right (IPR) infringement in the EU. Evidence on the economic value of IPRs in the EU economy, the extent to which this value is exploited, the infringement mechanisms used to capture that value and the actions being taken in response to these challenges are outlined and discussed. Involvement of organised crime groups (OCG) is also highlighted, based on cases investigated by Europol (European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation)....Weniger

Schlagwörter: ip value - report - counterfeiting - ip rigts infrigements reporting - ip rights