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Intellectual Property (IP) management plays an essential role in Open Innovation projects because it helps to exploit the value of new inventions generated by the collaboration or to maximise the value of existing inventions by finding new applications or markets.

This infographic provides information on how EU SMEs can use Indian Customs to protect their intellectual property at the Indian border.

This case study highlights the importance of selecting the rights products and services for which trade mark protection is sought, and how coexistence agreements can be an option to resolve preliminary refusals of trade mark applications in India.

The textile industry is one of the most important industries to the Indian economy.

This short video presents how European SMEs can ensure their interests are duly protected in the market from an IP perspective when entering this highly competitive market.

Registering your industrial design in India is the most efficient way to secure exclusive rights over the external and aesthetic aspect of your products, thereby stopping third parties from copying them.

Enforcement takes place in many different ways, but one of the key features is the prevention of the import or export of counterfeits in a specific territory.

This video explains how European SMEs can work with Indian Customs to protect their IP at the borders of the country.

Research and development is the set of activities involved in the creation of new processes, new products and the improvement of known methods or technologies. As such, it can be considered as one of the first steps towards the creation of valuable intellectual property.

This guide aims to spotlight critical aspects and novelties related to Intellectual Property (IP) management in the context of collaborative research and innovation projects funded under the European Union’s current Framework Programme for Research and Innovation “Horizon Europe” (2021-2027).

An IP assignment is a transfer of ownership of an intellectual property right, such as a patent, trade mark or copyright, from one party (the assignor) to another party (the assignee).