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The attorneys and administrative staff at ADELPHE IP wish you a wonderful 2025. They remain at your disposal to protect and leverage all of your innovative projects.

As a reminder, on October 10, 2024, the Council of the European Union adopted the Revised Directive on the Legal Protection of Designs and the Amended Regulation on Community Designs (cf. our news ici). Regulation (EU) 2024/2822 and Directive (EU) 2024/2823 of October 23, 2024 were thus published in the Official […]

On October 3, 2024, Nicolas SCRIVANO (Industrial Property Attorney, Patents) and Alexandre FEDER (Patent Engineer) of ADELPHE IP attended the regional conference on the latest developments in intellectual property law. Organized in Annecy by the GRAPI, the AROPI and the ASPI, this day was primarily dedicated to comparative Franco-Swiss insights on […]

As a reminder, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) adopted a new treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge on May 24, 2024. (Cf. our news ici). The WIPO has just announced that Malawi is the first country to sign this treaty.   For more information: https://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2024/article_0019.html  

On October 22, 2024, the European Patent Office (EPO) published a study on university patent applications in Europe. According to the EPO, this study is based on “data for 1,200 European universities that have generated patent applications at the EPO between 2000-2020.” It considers not only patent applications filed directly by […]

On January 7, 2025, the Budapest Treaty (1977) on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure will take effect with respect to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, commonly known as Uruguay. In substance, the purpose of this treaty is that “a contracting State which […]

The 17th edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII) – the global benchmark that rates the performance of countries by “their capacity for, and success in, innovation” – has just been published by the World Intellectual Property Organization, in partnership with the Portulans Institute, various private partners and a network of […]

The objective of the ‘Designs Package’ is to enhance the current system of design protection in order to strengthen, simplify and harmonise it. Indeed, Directive 98/71 of 13 October 1998 on the legal protection of designs and Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs needed to be […]

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has published a new report on patents in the field of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), which highlights a significant increase in inventions in this domain (54,000 GenAI-related patent applications since 2013, with more than 25% of these being filed in 2023 alone). Generative artificial intelligence […]

Each year, under the aegis of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), the DesignEuropa Awards are presented in recognition of excellence among holders of Registered Community Designs (RCDs). The DesignEuropa Awards include categories such as ‘Industry’, ‘Small and Start-up Companies’, in addition to the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ that recognises the […]