60 News by European Patent Office

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60 News by European Patent Office

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Patenting by European universities on the rise

High concentrations of academic patents at some universities and in some countries

23-Oct-2024 - European universities are behind more than 10% of all patent applications filed at the EPO from within Europe. However, wide variations in patterns of ownership and commercialisation are much in evidence. Europe’s universities are becoming increasingly vibrant workshops for many inventions in ...

patent applications patents start-ups
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British chemist is honoured for her groundbreaking work in mass spectrometry

​​Dame Carol Robinson opened a new era for protein analysis and drug development

27-Jun-2024 - British scientist Dame Carol Robinson, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a trailblazer in the field of mass spectrometry, has dedicated her career to exploring the molecular makeup of proteins within their native environments. Her pioneering work has paved the way for ...

active ingredient research biochemistry blood analysis
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Turning fallen leaves into sustainably made paper

Ukrainian scientist selected as a finalist for the Young Inventors Prize 2024

11-Jun-2024 - According to theWorld Wildlife Fund (WWF), the pulp and paper industry is one of the largest industrial sectors in the world and has an enormous influence on global forests. This sector accounts for 13–15% of total wood consumption and uses between 33–40% of all industrial wood traded globally. ...

circular economy paper recycling
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Portable AI-based test kit to identify bacterial infections

Dutch scientist selected as a finalist for the Young Inventors Prize 2024: Her startup focuses on the most common types of infection

11-Jun-2024 - According to a study published in The Lancet, one in eight global deaths in 2019 was caused by common bacterial infections, which are the second leading cause of death worldwide. Due to slow or ineffective diagnostics many treatments are carried out with limited information on the condition, ...

artificial intelligence bacterial infections infections
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Startups with patents and trade marks are 10 times more successful in securing funding

Biotechnology sector leads in the use of patents and trade marks, with nearly half of the sector’s startups seeking these essential rights

19-Oct-2023 - the European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) have published a new joint study highlighting how much patents and trade marks can boost the success of European startups. The report shows that, on average, startups that possess these two types of ...

agriculture artificial intelligence biotechnology
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Harvesting metal catalysts from plants used for cleaning contaminated soils

“Ecocatalyst” researcher Claude Grison wins European Inventor Award 2022

23-Jun-2022 - The European Patent Office honoured French scientist Claude Grison with the European Inventor Award 2022 in the "Research" category. The University professor and research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) has developed a method of using plants to extract metal ...

awards catalysts decontamination
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Messenger RNA pioneer Katalin Karikó receives European Inventor Award 2022 for Lifetime achievement

Her research work on modified mRNA paved the way to highly effective vaccines against COVID-19

23-Jun-2022 - The European Patent Office (EPO) honoured Hungarian-American researcher Katalin Karikó with the European Inventor Award 2022 in the category "Lifetime achievement", for her seminal work in developing modified messenger RNA (mRNA) for vaccines and medical therapies. For more than four decades, ...

coronaviruses Covid-19 Europäischer Erfinderpreis
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Cancer vaccine developers Madiha Derouazi and Elodie Belnoue laureates of the European Inventor Award 2022

New medical platform to make therapeutic cancer vaccines that help the immune system recognise and destroy cancer cells in the body of a patient

23-Jun-2022 - The European Patent Office (EPO) distinguished Swiss biotechnologist Madiha Derouazi and French immunologist Elodie Belnoue with the European Inventor Award 2022 in the "SME" category. The pair have developed a vaccine assembly platform called KISIMA to produce vaccines for treating different ...

cancer cancer vaccines Europäischer Erfinderpreis
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Long-lasting data storage with encapsulated DNA

Robert Grass and Wendelin Stark receive European Inventor Award 2021 in the "Research" category: Technology since commercialized through ETH spin-off

21-Jun-2021 - The European Patent Office (EPO) honoured Austrian and Swiss researchers Robert N. Grass and Wendelin Stark with the European Inventor Award 2021 in the "Research" category. Their technology for encapsulating data in DNA inside tiny glass spheres provides a novel means of preserving information, ...

data storage deoxyribonucleic acid DNA
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European Patent Office announces winners of the European Inventor Award 2021

Award winners come from Austria, Germany, India, Norway, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the US

18-Jun-2021 - The European Patent Office (EPO) announced the winners of the European Inventor Award 2021, its prestigious annual innovation prize. The individuals and teams were recognised for their innovative contributions in the fields of nasal drug delivery, DNA-based data storage, nanomaterials in ...

data storage dentistry drug delivery
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