IP in the news

By Eleonora Rosati, at April 2022 issue of Alicante News.

In her seminal 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf submitted that, for women to be able to create, they needed financial independence and a private space.

The main purpose of this day is to boost recognition of diverse art forms and to highlight artists' contributions to environmental sustainability

World Art Day is observed across the globe on 15 April to promote the development and appreciation of art. The day was established by the International Association of Art (IAA), a UNESCO partner, to raise international awareness about fine arts.

Four hundred years ago, Flemish artists Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens used the visual medium of oil paint to evoke an olfactory experience. You no longer have to use your imagination to engage with the smells highlighted in their painting The Sense of Smell. As Smithsonian reports, a new exhibition at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, Spain, pairs the artwork with 10 real fragrances inspired by the scene.

For years, video game development has been one of the fastest growing sectors of the entertainment industry — and it’s safe to say that the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t slowed that down. On the contrary, according to Newzoo’s assessment from October 2020, the global games market for 2020 will have generated revenues of USD 174.9 billion, a 19.6 percent increase on 2019 figures. Significantly, this late 2020 assessment is USD15 billion higher than the one made ahead of the pandemic in March.

In the context of the Strategic Plan 2025, under Digital Evolution Programme, the EUIPO has launched its first EUIPO Virtual assistant in EasyFiling: the EUIPO Chatbot.

The Chatbot was released in December 2021 as a Beta version for trade marks thanks to the close collaboration between CD and DTD. It is also available on EUTM Easy Filing 24/7.It provides general information on basic questions and doubts that users may have when filing online.

We need to talk about Bruno. The theme song from Disney’s hit movie Encanto (We don’t talk about Bruno) has become the first song from an animated movie to top the US charts for multiple weeks. How did this come about? The answer is, once again, TikTok.

The WIPO Photography Prize for Indigenous Peoples and Local Community Youth 2021-2022 (the Photography Prize) aims to celebrate the creativity of indigenous and local community youth, as well as raise awareness on how copyright can be used to protect their photographs.

Green is the new Gold; The EUIPO has won the 2022 edition of the Green World Environment Awards. The Office was listed in the Climate Change category, and was selected as winner due to our achievements in reducing the Office's energy, paper and carbon consumption which is part of the environmental project – Reduction of the EUIPO’s environmental impact.

Held every year on 21 March, World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. Practiced throughout history – in every culture and on every continent – poetry speaks to our common humanity and our shared values, transforming the simplest of poems into a powerful catalyst for dialogue and peace.

The winning consortium presented their design during today’s event.

On 17 March, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), held an Award ceremony to announce the anti-counterfeiting Blockathon Infrastructure winner.

And like any great success, the winning design was down to close cooperation, emerging from a group of talented designers and digital architects.