EUIPO has published a Call for Expression of Interest to compile a list of vendors interested in providing independent and specialised expertise on IP rights.
Business is not only about profits. For many companies, the bottom line is not always the only concern, as they were created to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. Likewise, intellectual property (IP) is not only about commerce. The logic behind IP law has always been about striking the right balance between rewarding innovators, creators and artists and promoting public interest and creativity.
Talks about avoiding or escaping the middle-income trap are widespread around the world, not least in South-East Asia, where only two out of ten countries – Brunei and Singapore – are currently in the high-income bracket ([1]). It has become increasingly obvious that innovation is the key to escaping this trap. While technology transfer and direct foreign investment have brought much wealth to many economies in previous decades, this development pathway has its limits.
As of 2 February 2024, the Intellectual Property Office of Viet Nam (IP Viet Nam) has made its industrial designs data available to the DESIGNview search tool.
With IP Viet Nam on board of DESIGNview, the tool now contains data from 76 participating offices.
With the addition of more than 52.295 industrial designs from IP Viet Nam, DESIGNview now provides information and access to more than 21,2 million industrial designs in total.
The South-East Asia IP SME Helpdesk, an initiative of the European Commission, supports SMEs in the European Union (EU) and the other countries of the Single Market Programme (SMP)* to both protect and enforce their Intellectual Property (IP) rights in or relating to South-East Asian countries, through the provision of free information and services.
The IP Key SEA project has published the third annual work plan (AWP) for its second phase, comprising 21 activities and covering areas of intellectual property (IP) rights that range from copyright to patents, trade marks and industrial designs, geographical indications (GIs), plant variety rights and trade secrets.