IPR
Patents, standards, FRAND, SEPs
7 regulations
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Community Design Directive
In force
Directive 98/71/EC approximates the laws of the Member States on the legal protection of designs by harmonising core substantive rules for registered design pr…
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Database Directive
In force
Directive 96/9/EC harmonises the legal protection of databases in the EU. It provides copyright protection for databases that are original by reason of the sel…
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Design Directive
In force
Directive (EU) 2024/2823 recasts and modernises EU rules on the legal protection of designs, replacing the previous Design Directive (Directive 98/71/EC). It h…
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Enforcement Directive (IPR) (IPRED)
In force
Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of intellectual property rights harmonises key civil law measures, procedures and remedies available in Member States t…
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Protection of trade secrets
In force
Directive (EU) 2016/943 harmonises across the EU the civil-law protection of undisclosed know-how and business information (trade secrets) against their unlawf…
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Compulsory licensing of patents
In process
This initiative (COM(2023) 224; 2023/0129(COD)) proposes an EU-level framework for granting compulsory licences for patents in crisis situations, to ensure the…
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Standard Essential Patents Regulation (SEP)
In process
The proposed Standard Essential Patents (SEP) Regulation would establish an EU framework to increase transparency and reduce disputes in licensing patents esse…