The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) dedicates
this Sunday, April 26, 2020 to "green innovation".
Preserving our environment is now at the heart of all innovation
strategies: an INPI study found the rise of so-called "green
innovation", particularly in the sectors of batteries, water
quality and electricity networks1.
Green inventions are, of course, laudable objectives, but these
inventions must also comply with the general intellectual property
rules.
To illustrate how intellectual property rules apply to a
green innovation, we suggest looking the vicissitudes of a patent,
protecting a greening solution for roofs or terraces, before the
French courts.
The company LE PRIEURE is the owner of the French part of patent
EP 1 044 599 and claims to operate the invention via
a pre-cultivated "all-in-one" water reserve container
under the trademark HYDROPACK®.
