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  • European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency

This short animated clip will tell you a little bit more about the importance of Intellectual Property (IP) management and explain how SMEs and researchers may benefit from our varied service portfolio.

  • Factsheet
  • European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency

Risks of investing in non-original design or filing an application for identical or confusingly similar design can be avoided or at least limited by performing design searching.

  • Factsheet
  • European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency

Many people confuse the concepts of the ownership of Intellectual Property (IP) and the inventorship or authorship of creations, or sometimes they are simply not aware of their different nature.

  • Factsheet
  • European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency

Intellectual property (IP) assets such as patents, trademarks, copyrights or trade secrets are increasingly the core of many organisations and transactions.

  • Factsheet
  • European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency

Joint ownership often arises in connection with collaborative innovation and is of particular relevance to EU-funded programmes, joint ventures and more generally to any research project entailing the co-development of intellectual property (IP).

  • Factsheet
  • European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency

Oftentimes significant research or business information might not fall within the scope of protection provided by traditional intellectual property (IP) rights such as patents or copyright.

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  • European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency

Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), otherwise called confidentiality agreements, are private contracts through which valuable information is kept safe.