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The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) was founded on 15 March 1994. EUIPO is located in Alicante (Spain).

In 1961, Thomas Bromley created the first electronic clock in his garage. He patented it, but decided not to renew the patent - a decision that costed him millions.

Nearly 1 in 10 Europeans claimed that they were misled into buying counterfeits since the beginning of Covid-19 pandemic the pandemic.

The AI Song Contest was initiated and organised for the first time in 2020 by Dutch public broadcaster VPRO, together with NPO Innovation and NPO 3FM and with the help of European Broadcast Union (organiser of the Eurovision Song Contest) as voting supervisor. Winners were announced at a live show streamed on YouTube. Uncanny Valley, a team from Australia, won the first AI Song Contest with their song Beautiful the World. 

Common derivative works include 5 types: translations, musical arrangements, motion picture versions of literary material or plays, art reproductions and condensations of preexisting works.

Resale rights give creators the right to receive a share of the profit on resale of a work provided the resale occurs in a specified way. Such share generally varies from 2% to 5% of the total sales price.

Patented in 1996, WLAN, or WiFi as it is commonly known, is now installed on an estimated 5 billion devices such as laptops, phones, cameras and games consoles. On 24 November 2013, the CSIRO confirmed that all their WiFi patents finally expired

What is the price for the production of counterfeit goods in Bulgaria? The total sales loss in the sector of Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics and Personal Care Products, Wine and Spirits and Toys and Games amounted to BGN 490 million.

A.L.I.C.E. also referred to as Alicebot, or simply Alice, is a natural language processing chatterbot—a program that engages in a conversation with a human by applying some heuristical pattern matching rules to the human's input. It was created by Dr. Richard Wallace in 1995.

In 1964, Xerox Corporation introduced (and patented) what many consider to be the first commercialized version of the modern fax machine, under the name (LDX) or Long Distance Xerography.