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Q&A on patents and coronavirus

What are patents and why do we need them? And how does the patent system encourage the innovation now urgently needed in diagnostics, detection, vaccines and treatments?

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Patent Index 2019

The EPO received more than 181 000 applications last year, an increase of 4% over 2018. Growth was driven by a surge in patent filings in digital technologies.

Patent commercialisation scoreboard

A new EPO study shows that Europe’s SMEs rely on European patents to protect their high-potential inventions, and that two thirds of these inventions are commercially exploited.