10/07/2025
A live blog collecting independent, third-party commentary of the European Commission's proposal on standard-essential patents.
09/07/2025
IP Europe respectfully disagrees with the European Commission’s conclusion that the proposed Automotive Licensing Negotiation Group (ALNG) does not raise competition concerns. In practice the ALNG […]
05/05/2025
How should patent pools and Licensing Negotiating Groups (LNGs) be dealt with under the European Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (TTBER) guidelines, which govern technology licensing […]
14/05/2024
An Indian high court ruling is a timely reminder of the damage to patent owners of deliberate holdout strategies.
28/02/2024
Statement from IP Europe Managing Director Patrick McCutcheon following today’s vote by the European Parliament on Standard-Essential Patents: “The European Parliament has scored a painful own […]
09/02/2024
Dear MEP, You will shortly be asked to vote on the JURI report on the European Commission’s proposal to regulate standard-essential patents (SEPs). We urge you […]
30/03/2020
Annex – IP Europe’s responses to relevant questions in the Public Questionnaire IP EUROPE’s COMMENTS ON THE EU COMPETITION RULES ON HORIZONTAL COOPERATION AGREEMENTS IP Europe […]
11/03/2020
Plans unveiled by the European Commission to protect the EU’s technological “sovereignty” have been welcomed by research and development organisations. The original article was published by […]
10/03/2020
Speaking in reaction to the European Commission’s Industrial Strategy, Francisco Mingorance, Executive Secretary of IP Europe, said: “IP Europe welcomes the acknowledgement that Europe must ‘speed […]
03/02/2020
Annex – IP Europe’s responses to relevant questions in the Public Questionnaire IP EUROPE’s COMMENTS ON THE EU COMPETITION RULES ON HORIZONTAL COOPERATION AGREEMENTS IP Europe […]