The European Patent Office (EPO) has recently upgraded its Deep Tech Finder. Deep Tech Finder is the digital platform established by the EPO to promote exchanges between the university and startup world and business realities by making available a comprehensive collection of university-filed and startup-filed European patent applications.
As recently stated by the Italian Ministry of Business and Made in Italy (MIMIT) “given the serious impact of counterfeiting on the macroeconomic level and microeconomic level, anti-counterfeiting policies represent a central element of industrial policies and contribute to supporting the competitiveness of the national production system”.
In our April 2024 issue we reported the formal adoption of the EU Design Reform by the EU Parliament and briefly discussed the most relevant changes introduced by this reform. Now, both the Regulation (EU) 2024/2822 amending Council Regulation No 6/2002 on Community designs and repealing Commission Regulation No 2246/2002 (the Amending Regulation) and Directive (EU) 2024/2823 on the legal protection of designs
