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Business management during crises calls for thorough risk management. Besides health, safety, environmental and operational risks, IP-related ones are highly relevant and pose a direct threat to business continuation ...

Besides, the importance of licensing out technologies increases, because nowadays we operate in a digitized and highly integrated, fast-moving environment.

Maintenance fees, sometimes referred to as renewal fees or annuity fees, for patent rights have to be paid annually in most countries.

Research shows that small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) do not adequately assess the value of their firm's Intellectual

Measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough and polio are just a few diseases, which, while devastating to previous generations, are primarily eradicated thanks

A Luxembourg-based company entered into a licensing agreement as the licensee (Licensee), with a licensor (Licensor) regarding intellectual property rights.

Brazil is the world's fifth largest country, having one of the world's fastest growing economies.

The story of human progress and expression is put on display by museums in the works of sculptors, painters, craftspeople and great scientific thinkers.

Following a request for a preliminary ruling from the Court of Appeal of Paris (France), the Court of Justice of the European Union (the "CJEU") clarified, in a judgment of 18 December 2019...

Registering your trademarks, patents and other key Intellectual Property (IP) assets is essential for ensuring the legal protection of your ideas — but it can also be critical to your financial bottom line.

Before a song finds its way into our ears, it begins quietly: a stray thought, a scribbled lyric, a single chord played in a moment of instinct.

We are all obsessed with the biggest, fastest, oldest, priciest – whatever pushes the boundaries of possibility and stretches the imagination.

Using an unlicensed image for a personal blog post without any commercial intent might not seem like the end of the world.

The European Patent Office's Enlarged Board of Appeal has issued a landmark decision in G 1/25 "Hydroponics," addressing a fundamental question that has divided practitioners for years: when patent claims are amended during examination, must the description be adapted to match? The ruling establishes that inconsistencies between claims and descriptions only require correction when they result in non-compliance with the European Patent Convention, not merely for achieving formal consistency.

Licensing is an important means of commercializing Intellectual Property (IP) and enables rights owners to expand cost-efficiently into new markets, territories and products.

Luxury brands are expanding beyond traditional product categories into wellness, hospitality, and experiential services, fundamentally transforming how trademark protection must adapt. As fashion houses open cafés, beauty brands operate spas, and heritage maisons launch wellness programs, the legal framework struggles to keep pace with ecosystem-based diversification that challenges conventional notions of brand boundaries and distinctiveness.

A very frequent motivation behind patent applications is the possibility of subsequent licensing. Ultimately, patent applicants and owners may choose to sell their Intellectual Property (IP)