Following #WorldIPDay, today we present new #Patent rules to help EU citizens & companies, especially #SMEs, benefit more from key inventions💡thanks to a more predictable, cheaper and crisis-ready patents framework. #IPR
What’s in the package?📦🔽
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Growth/status/1651513759079317505
The granting of Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPC) will be simplified by bringing it under 1⃣ single process for the granting of national SPCs and unitary SPCs based on unitary patents.
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Growth/status/1651519999268343814
A new EU-wide compulsory licencing instrument will provide the EU with an optimal compulsory licencing mechanism for crisis management, complementing other EU crisis instruments and further enhancing 🇪🇺 resilience💪 to crises.
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Growth/status/1651527032650579968
A new licencing framework for Standard-essential Patents (SEP) will create a balanced system + set a global 🌍 standard for SEP transparency, reduce conflicts and promote efficient negotiations.
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Growth/status/1651532235021983781
For the first time the #SMEfund will also cover European patents and new plant🌵 varieties. This will allow #SMEs to save up to €1,500 on their patent registration costs and €225 on the registration of new plant varieties per application.
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Growth/status/1651537422620975106
Launching on 1 June, the #unitarypatent system will significantly lower the transaction costs of obtaining & enforcing patents in the EU.
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Growth/status/1651542507640029186
