The Ministry of Economic Development provides the small and medium companies with a guarantee that will allow them to benefit from simplified funding and for a lower price than the market’s. Companies will be able to get up to 3 millions of euro without giving any guarantees, real or personal. The guarantee is supplied by […]
Category Archives: Patents & Inventions
The patent trolls pose a threat to start-ups
The patent trolls are not a recent phenomenon, but in the last two years their influence on the market has been worrying. The PAEs (Patent Assertion Entities) don’t produce anything, but they hold a high number of patents (patent trolls) that they use, more or less in reason, to promote legal action against those that […]
Community patent, we’re almost there
On December 11th 2012, the European Parliament has approved regulations that as of 2014 will introduce the Community Patent. It’s an important goal that has been reached after over 40 years of discussions and postponements. As stated by Michel Barnier, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, this is a memorable decision that will help […]
Apple vs. Samsung and vice versa
The two telephone giants are fighting in courts accusing each other of breaching patents. At the moment Samsung took the most severe knock, as it was sentenced to pay over one billion dollars as compensation, which however seems not to satisfy Apple who filed another refund request amounting to 700 million dollars. Samsung has been […]