{"id":7800,"date":"2020-12-08T13:53:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T11:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/?p=7800"},"modified":"2020-12-08T13:56:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T11:56:04","slug":"new-action-plan-on-intellectual-property-for-the-creative-and-innovative-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/new-action-plan-on-intellectual-property-for-the-creative-and-innovative-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"New Action Plan on Intellectual Property for the creative and innovative industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<em>The European Commission has recently adopted a new Action Plan to help small and medium-sized companies to manage, protect and commercialize inventions and creations in the knowledge economy. The Commission, like many governments and professional advisers, has identified the need to increase the awareness and legal protection of Intellectual Property. A welcomed initiative and in line with our fascination of and expertise within the field of Intellectual Property law.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Intellectual Property (IP) are key assets for an increasing number of companies around the world. IP relates to intangible assets such as inventions, brands, design, software, know-how, business secrets, copyright protected works and software.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/docsroom\/documents\/43845\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Action Plan<\/a>\u00a0(adopted by the European Commission<em>)\u00a0<\/em>identifies five key focus areas to increase the awareness and value of IP:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improving the protection of IP<\/li>\n<li>Boost the uptake of IP by small and medium-sized companies (SMEs)<\/li>\n<li>Facilitate the sharing of IP<\/li>\n<li>Fight counterfeiting and improve enforcement of IP rights<\/li>\n<li>Promote a global level playing field<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>IP-intensive industries currently account for almost 45% of Europe\u2019s GDP, and Sweden has long been a leader within the creative industries and is further recognized as an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/docsroom\/documents\/42981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Innovation Leader\u00a0<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0<em>Global\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iam-media.com\/directories\/patent1000\/rankings\/sweden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hotbed of innovation<\/a><\/em>. Incorporating IP as an integrated part of the business strategy is today a must in the ever increasing competition in the knowledge economy, and the European Commission initiative is a welcomed and much needed step in the right direction.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;5521&#8243; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; onclick=&#8221;custom_link&#8221; link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/team\/erik-esaiasson\/&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The European Commission has recently adopted a new Action Plan to help small and medium-sized companies to manage, protect and commercialize inventions and creations in the knowledge economy. The Commission, like many governments and professional advisers, has identified the need to increase the awareness and legal protection of Intellectual Property. A welcomed initiative and in&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/new-action-plan-on-intellectual-property-for-the-creative-and-innovative-industry\/\" title=\"Read New Action Plan on Intellectual Property for the creative and innovative industry\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-news-en"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7801,"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800\/revisions\/7801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gulliksson.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}