IRIS Newsletter #40 – April 2023

Newsletter #40

Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer

EPO - Patent Index 2022

The European Patent Office shared 2022’s Patent Index and IRIS would like to highlight a few numbers below.

Overall numbers 2022

European Patent Applications

+2.5%

Total Granted

-24.9%

Tech trends

Portugal - Patent applications

2021

290

2022

321

Growth

+7.6%

NOVA University of Lisbon, with a fundamental contribute from NOVA School of Science and Technology, is in the top 10 of national patent requests.

IP AGENDA

NOVA IMPACT - Sciencepreneur 2023

The Sciencepreneur program is aimed at Universidade Nova de Lisboa scientists who are seeking to create value from their research activities.

This 7-week course focuses on the acquisition of the basic concepts and understanding on how to generate value from research activities into a wider context, namely their benefits to the economy and society at large. The program culminates with a final pitch presentation and an award of 1.000€ to the best project.

Deadline for applications ends on April 6th, 2023.

EU Knowledge Week 2023

Registrations for the EU Knowledge Valorisation Week 2023 are now open! The EU Knowledge Valorisation Week runs from 25 April to 28 April 2023. It brings together research and innovation actors to exchange experiences, discuss current trends and challenges, and highlight valorisation opportunities with a wide range of stakeholders. Register now!

PATLIB 2023

Tallinn, Estonia – hybrid conference

11 and 12 May 2023

PATLIB is the annual conference of the PATLIB centres. This year the event is co-organised with the Estonian Patent Office and takes place in a hybrid format with limited on-site participation in Tallinn for PATLIB centres and national patent offices in the Baltic and Nordic states.

Search Matters 2023

Online conference for patent search professionals

23-25 May 2023

This year’s theme is “Searching for sustainability”. Find out more about the best search strategies for these fascinating technological areas in insightful lectures and interactive workshops.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND FUNDING

Euratom Research in Action and Opportunities for Europe: EU Strategic Autonomy and the Future Energy Systems

This Euratom event will present the main priorities of the Work Programme 2023-25 managed by DG Research and Innovation and will focus on Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). A Declaration on ‘EU SMR 2030: Research & Innovation, Education & Training’ will be signed by Commissioner Gabriel and EU nuclear stakeholders: Nucleareurope, SNETP, ENS and ENEN.

The event will be followed by the launch of the calls for proposals on the Funding and Tenders Portal.

For more details, please download the Agenda or consult the Programme section.

IMPACT

Open for you! An introduction series to Open Science II (2023)

PREPRINT AND OPEN PEER REVIEW

Day and time: 11 April 2023, 14:00 – 15:30

PREDATORY PUBLISHERS AND IDENTITY FRAUD – HOW TO IDENTIFY DUBIOUS PROVIDERS

Day and time: 27 April 2023, 15:00