The next edition of the SME Fund, which enables funding for small and medium-sized enterprises for the protection of intellectual property rights, is being launched. Grant applications can be submitted from 23 January 2023 until 8 December 2023. A webinar on this edition of the fund will be held on 31 January 2023 at 10:00 CET, aimed at both companies and their attorneys.
Bumpy road to implementation of the DSM Directive
The controversy surrounding the implementation of Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the digital single market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC (the so-called 'Digital Single Market' Directive, hereinafter the “DSM Directive”) has been ongoing in Poland for several years.
The Legal Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office, in its decision J 8/20, published with reasons in July this year, confirmed that only a natural person can obtain a patent. Simultaneously, the Board pointed out that inventions made by artificial intelligence systems, are not excluded from patentability under the 1973 European Patent Convention.
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