Our services
Helpline
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.
Training
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.
Resources & Tools
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
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
Getting started
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!
IP in business
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.
IP issues
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 six different regions: China, Europe, India, Latin America, South-East Asia and Africa. 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.
Latest News
Out Now: New IP Special "Knowledge Valorisation in R&I Collaborations"
European IP Helpdesk team has just published a new thematic package focusing on “Knowledge Valorisation in R&I Collaborations” It includes a variety of helpful resources that explore the valorisation of research results and scientific knowledge in further detail.
EU and Chile comprehensive and updated protection for wines and spirits’ names
Both EU and Chile have just modernised their agreements on wines and on spirits and aromatized wines, which enhances bilateral trade of these products playing a key role in agricultural trade for both parties that will benefit from reciprocal protection.
EC Publishes: Recommendations on Code of Practice on the Management of Intellectual Assets and on Standardisation
The Commission has recently published a Recommendation on a Code of practice on the management of intellectual asset for knowledge valorisation a Recommendation on a Code of practice on Standardisation.
Burberry - Frida Khalo
In this week's news, two decisions from EUIPO on registration and opposition.
EUIPO Released an Updated Study Analysing Green EU Trade Mark Filings
European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has recently released an update of an earlier study that analyses green EU trade marks (EUTMs).
Upcoming events
EU - Webinar: Addressing IP impact and innovation in EU projects
- Live streaming available
Doing business in North Africa
- Bucharest, Romania
EU - Webinar: IP and Artificial Intelligence
- Live streaming available
EU - Webinar: IP in Business collaborations for SMEs and Start-ups
- Live streaming available