PRV is involved in the EU project IPeuropAware, along with over twenty other patent and trademark authorities. The project focuses on the resources small and medium enterprises (SMEs) need to make better use of intellectual property rights. With the right knowledge and tools, SMEs can protect their products and services in the best possible way. With information about how they can use intellectual property rights in, among other things, their business strategies, they can increase their competitiveness.

Tools are developed

By focusing on SMEs and their needs, a number of tools are developed that can be used by them in their work with intellectual property rights. These tools give SMEs a better chance to protect their rights.

The project also produces handbooks for, among other things, the textile industry in order to increase knowledge and awareness of intellectual property rights and how they can protect themselves from piracy.

InnovAccess and IPR Helpdesk

There are two web-based tools today. On the website InnovAccess, you can read about how you, as a company, can make use of intellectual property rights and protect yourself against piracy.

Another web-based tool is aimed at research projects with funding from the EU. On the website IPR Helpdesk, these projects can get help on how to best protect themselves with the help of intellectual property rights.

The EU project began on 1 November 2007.

Contact person at PRV: Christina Nordström

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InnovAccess and IPR Helpdesk