Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
EU Fact Sheets
01-10-2017
Intellectual property includes all exclusive rights to intellectual creations. It encompasses two types of rights: industrial property, which includes inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs and models and designations of origin, and copyright, which includes artistic and literary property. Since the entry into force of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union in 2009, the EU has had explicit competence for intellectual property rights (Article 118).
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- computer applications
- copyright
- data processing
- designs and models
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- European construction
- European organisations
- European patent
- European Patent Office
- EUROPEAN UNION
- industrial counterfeiting
- information and information processing
- information society
- information technology and data processing
- INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
- patents licence
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- research and intellectual property
- single market
- technological change
- technology and technical regulations
- trademark