Press releases

Europe well-positioned in eco-innovation, determined to become world leaderParticipants at the European Patent Forum fired an opening shot for a broad discussion about if and how the patent system needs to be redesigned to foster innovation to combat climate change. They agreed that innovation and the development of new eco-technologies have a vital role to play in this race against time.

Europe hails top inventorsAntiviral treatment, aluminium car frame, revolutionary eye scan and robot surgery honoured with the European Inventor of the Year 2008 award

EPO and USPTO to Pilot Patent Prosecution HighwayTrial programme improving quality and pendency at both offices

IPR Protection & Enforcement in China: A new EUR 16m EU-China co-operation gets underwayRepresentatives of European industry, the national patent offices and European intellectual property experts in Brussels today were introduced by the European Commission and the European Patent Office (EPO) to the new EU-China partnership project on the protection of intellectual property (IP).

European Inventor of the Year 2008: Inventing new treatments for AIDS, MPEG technology and greener carsTwelve revolutionary inventors compete for Europe's top innovation prize

With patent applications on the rise, European Patent Office puts quality before quantityAccording to statistics published by the European Patent Office (EPO), the number of European patent applications has continued to increase, but the EPO has granted fewer patents.