They remain at your disposal to protect and leverage all of your innovative projects.

L’article WISHING YOU A WONDERFUL 2025 est apparu en premier sur Bugnion SA.

Regulation (EU) 2024/2822 and Directive (EU) 2024/2823 of October 23, 2024 were thus published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) on November 18, 2024.

The Regulation will take effect in two stages, depending on the amendments made: starting either May 1, 2025 or July 1, 2026.

Member States will be required to transpose the Directive within 36 months of its entry into force, no later than December 9, 2027.

For more information:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:L_202402822

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024L2823

L’article EU-LEVEL PROTECTION FOR DESIGNS AND MODELS est apparu en premier sur Bugnion SA.

Nicolas SCRIVANO (Head of Patents), Sophie Courtois, Auriane Gilibert and Morgane Peltier (Intellectual Property Lawyers at BUGNION SA) also attended the conference.

L’article BUGNION SA AT GRAPI-AROPI-ASPI DAY ON OCTOBER 3, 2024 est apparu en premier sur Bugnion SA.

The WIPO has just announced that Malawi is the first country to sign this treaty.

For more information :

https://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2024/article_0019.html

L’article PATENT – WIPO TREATY ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, GENETIC RESOURCES AND ASSOCIATED TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE est apparu en premier sur Bugnion SA.

According to the EPO, this study is based on “data for 1,200 European universities that have generated patent applications at the EPO between 2000-2020.” It considers not only patent applications filed directly by universities, but also those done by other entities mentioning the names of researchers affiliated with these universities.

The leading countries which have filed the most university patent applications are Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy.

Switzerland is also very well positioned (top 10). The ETH Zurich holds the top spot over the reference period (2000-2020) with 2,219 patents, followed by the EPFL with 1,697 patents and the Universität Zürich with 930 patents.

For more detailed information about this study :

https://www.epo.org/en/news-events/news/patenting-european-universities-rise

L’article EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE (EPO) – UNIVERSITY PATENTS IN EUROPE est apparu en premier sur Bugnion SA.

In substance, the purpose of this treaty is that “a contracting State which allows or requires the deposit of microorganisms for the purposes of patent procedure must recognize, for such purposes, the deposit of a microorganism with any ‘international depositary authority,’ irrespective of whether such authority is on or outside the territory of the said State.” (Source: WIPO)

This treaty thus allows a patent applicant to avoid having to deposit a sample of the concerned microorganism in each contracting State selected for patent protection, and instead to deposit such a sample with a single “international depositary authority,” which is an entity capable of preserving it.

For information, the Budapest Treaty has 90 members and has been in force in Switzerland since August 19, 1981. The international depositary authority in Switzerland is the “Culture Collection of Switzerland AG (CCOS).”

For  more information :

https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/treaties/notifications/details/treaty_budapest_366

L’article MICRO-ORGANISMS – BUDAPEST TREATY – ACCESSION OF THE ORIENTAL REPUBLIC OF URUGUAY est apparu en premier sur Bugnion SA.

The 2024 rankings are based on 81 indicators of innovation and feature 133 competing economies (assessed according to their innovation ecosystem performance).

Once again this year, Switzerland has retained its position as leader, ahead of 2nd-placed Sweden (runner-up also in 2023) and 3rd-placed United States of America (3rd also in 2023). It is worth noting that Switzerland has consistently topped the leaderboard since 2010.

Switzerland’s closest European Union neighbours, who are ranked in the top 20 of this index, include: Germany in 9th place (8th in 2023), France in 12th place (11th in 2023) and Austria in 17th place (18th in 2023).

More details on key trends and findings in this 17th edition available at :

https://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2024/article_0013.html

https://www.ige.ch/en/services/newsroom/news/news-details/die-schweiz-weiterhin-als-fuehrende-innovationskraft

L’article GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX 2024 – SWITZERLAND TOPS THE LEADERBOARD YET AGAIN est apparu en premier sur Bugnion SA.

It is against this contextual backdrop that the Council of the European Union, on 10 October 2024, adopted the revised directive on the legal protection of designs and the amended regulation on Community designs.

The texts adopted are aimed in particular at improving registration procedures, harmonising European and national systems, and bringing the legislation currently in force in line with the era of digital designs and 3D printing.

The new texts will shortly be published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU).

More on this topic to follow…

More information available at:

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/10/10/intellectual-property-council-gives-its-final-approval-to-the-designs-protection-package/

L’article PROTECTION OF DESIGNS AT EUROPEAN UNION LEVEL (‘DESIGNS PACKAGE’) est apparu en premier sur Bugnion SA.

Generative artificial intelligence enables users to create content (text, music, images, videos, computer code, etc.).

The top five countries with the highest number of GenAI-related patents filed are China (38,210 GenAI inventions), the United States of America (6,276), the Republic of Korea (4,155), Japan (3,409), and India (1,350).

More information available at :

https://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2024/article_0009.html

L’article PATENTS IN THE FIELD OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (GENERATIVE IA) est apparu en premier sur Bugnion SA.

Indeed, our entire team came together for a few days at the seaside resort of Cascais, near Lisbon in Portugal, to mark this important milestone.

L’article BUGNION CELEBRATES ITS CENTENARY est apparu en premier sur Bugnion SA.