On 4 July 2023, the European Patent Office (EPO) announcd in Valencia (Spain) this year’s winners of the prestigious “European Inventor Award”. This prize, designed to reward the creativity of inventors, has been awarded every year since 2006 to inventors in various categories: industry, research, non-EPO countries, small and medium-sized enterprises […]
As a reminder, a new prize was created by the EPO in 2022, the Young Inventor’s Prize (any field of technology), designed to reward inventors aged 30 or under at the time of the award. According to the EPO, “the winner receives the sum of EUR 20,000. The second and third […]
The European Patent with unitary effect and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) came into force on June 1st, 2023. The Unitary Patent System currently makes it possible to obtain a single form of protection in the 17 countries of the European Union that have ratified the UPC Agreement, based on the […]