WIPANO Patenting for Companies
Funds German small and medium-sized enterprises protecting their own research and development results with patents and other industrial property rights through WIPANO.
WIPANO Patenting for Companies (German: Patentierung – Unternehmen) is one of three components under the WIPANO directive (Wissens- und Technologietransfer durch Patente und Normen — knowledge and technology transfer through patents and standards), run by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE, formerly BMWK). Projektträger Jülich (PTJ) administers applications and is the…
Protection of a company's own research and development (R&D) results through patents and other industrial property rights, including building a strategic understanding of the patent system and support for exploiting filed rights.
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