IP Europe brings together innovative European organisations that recognise the value of patents and open standards in enabling innovation, growth, and economic and social progress.
From global technology leaders and research institutes, to SMEs harnessing patent rights to grow, IP Europe is a coalition of R&D-intensive organisations whose inventions are protected by patents.
IP Europe members include both licensors and implementers of patents including standard-essential patents (SEPs).
WHAT WE STAND FOR
We champion European policies that boost investment in the creation of new technologies and businesses, enable secondary innovation in highly secure products and services, and drive both technological and societal progress.
We work to ensure that decision-makers recognise and value the vital importance of intellectual property, including standard-essential patents, to the European digital and knowledge-based economy, including information and economic security. We encourage EU policies to support a world-leading innovation ecosystem based on global open standards and standard-essential patents.
According to the EUIPO and the EPO, 45% of economic activity and 38.9% of employment in the EU – as many as 83.3 million jobs – are generated by IP-intensive companies.
Vision
To ensure Europe's sustainable growth and prosperity by promoting policies that support the virtuous circle of private investment, innovation and progress.
Mission
To promote policies that support a collaborative European innovation ecosystem and help drive Europe's digital and green agendas, growth and prosperity.
We do this, for example, by:
- Working to ensure that all organisations contributing to foundational innovation can receive a fair return on their investments, thereby incentivising further research and development.
- Supporting innovative SMEs to effectively use IP rights and to develop strong portfolios so they can attract capital, grow, create jobs and compete in Europe and globally.
- Safeguarding the vital system for the open development of highly secure wireless technology standards, which promotes innovation while balancing the rights and obligations of technology providers and implementers.
WHY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MATTERS
We champion an innovation ecosystem in which patents and open standards incentivise private investment in R&D-intensive technologies and enable a virtuous circle of highly secure technological innovation and progress.
IP Europe brings together European technology providers of all sizes to champion policies that enable innovation, growth, job creation, and the emergence of the technologies of the future.
TEAM
- Managing Director: Patrick McCutcheon
- Chair: Collette Rawnsley
- SME Chair: Ruben Bonet
- Communications Adviser: Brandon Mitchener
- Secretariat: Sandrine Lesciauskas