A new call for proposals from EUIPO to supply SMEs with intellectual property vouchers
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has recently launched a call for proposals to provide SMEs with vouchers in order to protect their intellectual property.
SMEs are the backbone of the European economy and the Intellectual property rights (IPRs) are crucial to help them to protect and commercially exploit their intangible assets coming from their innovation efforts. Since the Covid-19 started, it posed a threat for the global economic development; for that reason, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), together with the European Commission and the central industrial property offices of the EU Member States, launched in January 2021 the “Ideas Powered for Business SME Fund 2021”, a pilot initiative aimed to make IP protection more accessible to SMEs by co-financing the costs for IP Scans.
The purpose of the call
In January 2022 EUIPO launched the first call for proposals under the new initiative “