Our services
Submit your IP question via our Helpline service and the right expert from one of our regional teams will get back to you with initial guidance and advice on how to best tackle your specific IP issue for free and in three working days.
Practice makes perfect! Our training calendar is packed with webinars and workshops on various IP topics. Choose your favourite topic and region and start expanding your IP knowledge.
Browse our ever-growing library of user-friendly IP materials such as guides, factsheets, case studies, or video clips helping you explore IP management, protection and enforcement in different settings and regions.
Horizon IP Scan is a new, free-of-charge IP support service provided by the European Commission specifically designed to help European start-ups and other SMEs involved in EU-funded collaborative research projects to efficiently manage and valorise IP in collaborative R&I efforts.
Introduction to IP Management
What are different types of IP? What are key IP challenges when entering into cross-border business relations or doing business outside Europe? And how do you properly assess your IP? These are only some of the questions this section addresses. Learn more about some of the basics of IP and IP management, and get ready!
Managing IP in business highlights important aspects, decisions and processes to be addressed by SMEs when setting up and implementing their IP strategy.
Find out more about the different facets of IP management in various scenarios: from taking your business abroad, finding partners, or choosing the right commercialisation model for your IP.
Intellectual Property Rights
Infringement and Enforcement
IP management
IP & Thematic areas
IP in EU-funded research projects
About the IP Helpdesk
Aiming to support IP capacity building along the full scale of IP practices, we provide free-of-charge, first-line support to European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on IP management, protection and enforcement covering five different regions: China, Europe, India, Latin America and South-East Asia. The European IP Helpdesk additionally assists SMEs and researchers participating in EU-funded research and innovation projects in dealing with IP issues related to these specific programmes.
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