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2022 was a very successful year for the EU Intellectual Property Office’s Ideas Powered SME Fund
2022 was a very successful year for the EU Intellectual Property Office’s (EUIPO) Ideas Powered SME Fund, with a total of 22,479 applications from 21,967 SMEs from 27 EU member states, which is almost double the number of applications received in the[…]
New improvement of the electronic services at the Patent Office of the Republic of Bulgaria
Author: Boyana Boyadzhieva The Bulgarian Patent Office has announced that from 16.01.2023 filed applications will be accepted automatically, without the intervention of an employee of the Office. In that way, filers will receive an accession number and the possibility of payment immediately[…]
TM View with support for national IP offices
Author: Preslav Baldzhiev The EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) will expand the field of application of one of TM View’s functionalities – the image search, and it will interact with the tools developed by national offices through API. The decision is also[…]
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rules on the exercise of the “right to be forgotten” by search engines
Author: Boyana Boyadzhieva In its judgment in Case C-460/20, the CJEU ruled that the person operating an internet search engine must de-reference information that the person making the request proves to be manifestly inaccurate. The judgment follows a reference for a preliminary[…]