SME Fund, filing trends and COVID-19: the ED update

March 15, 2021 About the EUIPO

In his latest video update the EUIPO’s Executive Director, Christian Archambeau, talks about the second window to apply for an SME Fund grant. The SME Fund is a €20 million scheme created to help European small to medium-sized enterprises access their intellectual property rights.

With more than 1 200 requests covering 3 000 intellectual property (IP) titles, the Ideas Powered for Business SME Fund opened its second application window from 1 to 31 March 2020.

Mr Archambeau also gave an update on current filing trends: there has been a remarkable increase in demand for EU trade marks (over 10%) and China was the number one source of applications in 2020.

Watch the video for more insights