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3D printing innovation booms, with soaring patent filings
Daily NewsFriday, 24 November 2023Daniel van Herck2 viewsRead more...Patent filings in 3D printing grew eight times faster than average of all technologies in last decade A report published by the European Patent Office (EPO) today shows that innovation in additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, has surged in the past decade. The study, Innovation trends in additive manufacturing, finds that between 2013 and 2020, international patent families in 3D pri ...
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World Intellectual Property Indicators Report: Record Number of Patent Applications Filed Worldwide in 2022
Daily NewsFriday, 24 November 2023Daniel van Herck2 viewsRead more...Global patenting activity soared to new records in 2022, fueled by Indian and Chinese innovators, but an uncertain economic outlook is weighing on further growth. Even as global filings for trademark ...
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Unitary Patent system is an earthquake in slow motion
Daily NewsThursday, 16 November 2023Daniel van Herck5 viewsRead more...The Unitary Patent system is doing much better than expected, with almost 80 cases in the first six months and about 20-25% of new European patents converted to UPs, according to Paul England. He is s ...
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Meta Patents Aim to Read Brain and Body signals
Daily NewsWednesday, 15 November 2023Daniel van Herck4 viewsRead more...Meta wants to get in your personal space to make extended reality more, well, real. The company filed two patents for tools that read your body’s neural and muscular signals for use in controlling th ...
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Startups with patents and trade marks are 10 times more successful in securing funding, new study finds
Daily NewsWednesday, 25 October 2023Daniel van Herck12 viewsRead more...Owning Intellectual Property (IP) rights boosts startups’ ability to raise funds, especially for deep-tech industries with higher capital needs The European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Union ...
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AI-Generated Inventions Need Human Ingenuity and Patents
Daily NewsFriday, 11 August 2023Daniel van Herck31 viewsRead more...Blueshift IP’s Robert Plotkin examines how AI inventions can be patented if they meet all the legal requirements for patentability. Read more at Bloomberg Law
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Apple's wild new patent could turn its AirPods into a health device
Daily NewsThursday, 03 August 2023Daniel van Herck160 viewsRead more...New Apple patents crop up all the time, but one recent filing has received particular attention for what it could mean for the future of wearable tech in health tracking. A patent filed with the US Pa ...
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Early Adoption of the Unified Patent Court
Daily NewsWednesday, 26 July 2023Daniel van Herck44 viewsRead more...The Unified Patent Court (UPC) opened its doors on June 1, 2023. Nineteen actions were initiated during the first six weeks, across a range of subject areas and case values. Read more at JDSupra.
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Unitary Patent & Unified Patent Court
Daily NewsMonday, 12 June 2023Daniel van Herck60 viewsRead more...A better patent system for Europe The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court are the building blocks which supplement and strengthen the existing centralised European patent granting system. The ...
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Demand for European patents has reached an all-time high
Daily NewsThursday, 04 May 2023Daniel van Herck204 viewsRead more...Yann Ménière, EPO Chief Economist and Aidan Kendrick, EPO Chief Business Analyst, discuss the key patenting trends at the EPO in 2022. Increasing demand for European patents has been driven by compani ...
