31/07/2025
IP Europe welcomes media reports of the European Commission’s withdrawal of its proposed Regulation on Standard-Essential Patents, or SEPs. We believe such a move is in […]
18/07/2025
Security and competitiveness are two of the main priorities of Denmark’s 6-month stint at the presidency of the Council of the European Union, July-December. Intellectual property […]
27/06/2025
The 27th of June marks World Micro-, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Day. To help celebrate it, IP Europe asked its SME Chair, Rubén Bonet, Co-Founder and […]
12/06/2025
The European Commission says it wants to do more to promote science and innovation in Europe. Can it resist the temptation for more regulation instead? In […]
10/06/2025
IP Europe has sent the following letter fact-checking European automakers’ recent false claims about patent licensing to the intellectual property experts of all European Union member […]
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 […]
26/03/2025
The European Commission has now proposed, and European ministers approved, a simplified work programme for 2025 that includes withdrawing nearly 40 legislative proposals. One of those […]
26/02/2025
We support the European Commission’s focus on regulatory simplification and in particular its decision to withdraw the proposal to regulate standard-essential patents (SEPs) from its Work Programme. The SEPs proposal […]
22/10/2024
Europe has a long history of protecting intellectual property (IP). Even the ancient Greeks and Romans protected the copyright of their highly celebrated authors. The first […]
14/10/2024
This World Standards Day, let’s celebrate that open standards bring smartphones, computers, cars, televisions and industrial tools to life by enabling electronics to communicate with one […]