Patents and trade secrets are extremely important assets for any company and are valuable tools for protecting inventions. But how do we decide whether it makes more sense to protect our invention by issuing a patent or keeping it secret? This article[...]

Author: Preslav Baldzhiev With the development of digital technologies, humanity is increasingly turning its attention to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Currently, AI is used in various fields – healthcare, it is built into more and more devices for everyday use (mobile devices, computers,[...]

Introduction The Benelux Intellectual Property Office has developed and provided the i-DEPOT service, which is a register of information whose confidentiality has been maintained. Another similar service is WIPO PROOF, which was developed by the World Intellectual Property Organization. Anyone can take[...]

Introduction In May 2020, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) launched an entirely new online business service called WIPO PROOF. WIPO PROOF provides evidence through a digital fingerprint (token) containing the date and time of a digital file in order to verify[...]

Patents are granted for inventions in any field of technology, which are new, involve an inventive step and are susceptible of industrial application. The owner of the patent receives the exclusive right to use the invention, the right to prohibit other persons[...]

This article will present several useful databases for owners of intellectual property in order to decrease the chance for infringements of their intellectual property rights. ANTI-COUNTERFEITING RAPID INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM (ACRIS) The first database is called ACRIS, which is the abbreviation of the[...]