IP Number of the Day

The Berne Convention is about the International protection of all forms of writing, including songs, drawings, operas, sculptures, paintings.

In 2019 there are now 353 IPR-intensive industries in the EU economy, compared with the 342 identified in the previous (2016) study. Approximately two thirds of these industries are intensive in respect of more than one IP right.

In 1973 Dr Martin Cooper general manager at Motorola communications system division made the first public mobile phone call on a device that weighed 1.1Kg.

Your trade mark tells customers who you are. Almost 135 000 trade marks are registered at EUIPO every year. A European Union trade mark is valid in all European Union Member States.

Types of works protected by copyright: literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, cinematographic, sound recordings.

In 1623 the Statute of  Monopolies was enacted; Inventors were given 14 years of exclusive right protection to govern how their inventions were used.

The first applications for the European patent were filed at the European Patent Office (“EPO”) on 1 June 1978. The history of numbering dates back to this date.