Startups with a unique product or technology solution that they want to protect from being pinched will often consider filing for a patent, which grants the right to claim that idea as your own intellectual property. Patents protect intellectual property from being replicated by other businesses — a protection that is particularly important when companies like university spinouts, created off the back of academic research, are breaking new ground with novel solutions to current problems.
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November 10, 2023
Which European countries are filing the most patent applications?
Data from the European Patent Office has revealed the European countries that were filing the most patents for innovation last year
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