Monday IPDate April 29, 2024

World IP news: from WIPO and EPO

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World Intellectual Property Day: IP and the SDGs

To build our common future and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we need to re-think how we live, work and play. World IP Day 2024 is an opportunity to explore how intellectual property (IP) encourages and can amplify the innovative and creative solutions that are so crucial to building our common future.

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New EPO-EIB study: EU single market is a key catalyst for scaling clean and sustainable inventions

On the occasion of World Intellectual Property Day, the EPO has published a study with the EIB on the commercialisation of clean and sustainable technologies. It finds that cleantech inventions surged by 33% from 2016 to 2021.