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Ideas Powered for Business SME Fund 2025: Launch of the Fund today, February 3, 2025″
Ideas Powered for Business SME Fund 2025: New Edition of the Fund to Support SMEs, Launching on February 3, 2025 Following the success of the SME Fund in previous editions, we are pleased to inform you that the new SME...
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Bilateral meeting between OBI and the Albanian Industrial Property Authority (General Directorate of Industrial Property, GDIP), Tirana, January 29, 2025 On Wednesday, January 29, 2025, a bilateral meeting took place in Tirana between the Hellenic Industrial Property Organisation (OBI) and...
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“Real cases of companies that used Mediation for resolving their disputes.”
"Have you ever been involved in an Intellectual Property (IP) legal dispute? Sometimes, reaching an amicable settlement can be faster, cheaper, and more effective than engaging in a courtroom battle. In collaboration with the members of the EU Intellectual Property Network...
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“Thessaloniki Authenticity: Re-certification of the city as ‘Authenticity’ for the next 2 years.”
In Thessaloniki, on Friday, January 31, 2025, the continuation of the "Authenticities" project was signed, along with the re-certification of the city as "Authenticity" for the next 2 years. The main goal of the OBI, the municipal authorities, and the...
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Officially Recognized Exhibitions
This announcement publishes the list of officially recognized exhibitions under the International Exhibitions Convention signed in Paris on November 22, 1928, and ratified by Law 5562/1932 (Government Gazette A’ 221), which have been registered to date with the International...
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ΟΒΙ-EUIPO Seminars under the auspices of NKUA – Expert presentations on Intellectual Property
The two seminars organised by the Hellenic Industrial Property Organisation (OBI) in collaboration with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), under the auspices of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), were successfully concluded. The seminars were inaugurated...
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DesignEuropa Awards 2025 – Application Deadline: February 28, 2025
The DesignEuropa Awards, recognized across Europe and organised by the European Union Intellectual Property Office- (EUIPO), celebrate excellence in industrial design in Registered Community Designs (RCDs). This year, the grand European celebration of industrial design will be held in Copenhagen! The...
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Preventing cyber theft of trade secrets in SMEs: A comprehensive toolkit
"The European Commission has developed a toolkit to prevent trade secret theft in cyberspace to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This toolkit is part of the EU’s broader initiative to combat counterfeiting and protect innovation, as outlined in the...
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“New Board of Directors of the Hellenic Industrial Property Academy (HIPA).
We inform you that on January 16, 2025, the new Board of Directors of the Hellenic Industrial Property Academy (HIPA) for the term 2025-2030 was formed, following the completion of the term of the previous board. The President continues to...
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WIPO Global Awards 2025 – Applications open from March 15 to March 31, 2025.
The WIPO Awards recognize outstanding startups, SMEs, and university spin-offs that use intellectual property (IP) to promote economic development with a social impact around the world. The WIPO Inventors and Creators Award, launched in 2022, aims to encourage the commercialization...