Articles for the ‘Intellectual Property’ Category

The Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) recently revised its public access to documents policy to align with the European Union (EU)’s evolving transparency standards. Effective since 15 January 2025, the new policy seeks to ensure broad access to all documents that the CPVO holds, while protecting private parties’ commercial interests. In particular, a system of prior confidentiality requests has been put in place for applicants of Community plant variety rights (CPVR).

With a special focus on university joint ventures. Who owns IP research & development? From the point of view of the employer or principal which (contractual) precautions have to be taken? Current trends and particularities in university joint ventures?