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The Commissioner for Tax and Customs issued a notification providing for an immediate deduction with respect to expenditure of a capital nature on intellectual property or intellectual property rights...

On the 14th of December 2015, the Office for the Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) published a report stating that in the EU games and toy sector, 12.3% of sales are lost due to counterfeiting.

The Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) and the European Patent Office (EPO), have recently published two reports regarding the impact of counterfeit fashion items...

This positive approach towards the digitisation of services will prove to be rather beneficial since applications will now be easily accessible to all.

As many are no doubt aware, an updated draft of the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the EU and the European Atomic Energy Community was published last month.

The federal circuit court in Washington DC ruled in favour of Apple and has significantly reduced Samsung's chances of escaping the hefty fine due to Apple for patent infringements.

Back in the year 2000, the member states of the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) designated the 26th of April to be marked as World Intellectual Property Day.

On 27th February 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union, in a Grand Chamber composition, upheld the first appeal under the 2019 rule change, which drastically narrows...

The European Union Intellectual Property Office (the "EUIPO") has implemented ‘The Ideas Powered for Business SME Fund' (the "Fund"), a European Commission initiative, for the year 2022.

The European Commission has just released its Innovation Union Scoreboard 2015, analysing the EU's performance in innovation.

The SME Fund 2026, a European Commission initiative implemented by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), is now open and will run until 04th December 2026, subject to availability of funds.

The intellectual property sector is also rapidly expanding in Malta, thus requiring further action from the government's side.

The current solution for pan-European patent protection is that presented by the European Patent Office (EPO)

Over the past few years Microsoft and Google have been in a tangled web of disputes over patent issues.

The second webinar in the Flourish IP webinar series was held on World Intellectual Property Day: IP and Youth innovating for a Better Future, 26th April 2022.

The current solution for pan-European patent protection is that presented by the European Patent Office (EPO).

Malta is a late-comer to the European Patent Convention (EPC).