IPPro The Annual 2018/19
The beating heart of the world is reaching new heights in innovation, with technology coming to the forefront in 2018 as an enabler of efficiency and automation. In the intellectual property industry, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain are beginning to shape the burgeoning technology services landscape, and exciting opportunities for both inventors and law firms alike are beginning to present themselves. However recent regulation, such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation has drawn a line in the sand for enforcers, resulting in far-reaching consequences across continents, and leaving brands open to attacks from those wanting to hide behind anonymity on the internet. All this, and more, is discussed inside IPPro: The Annual, which features comment and analysis from the world’s leading IP associations. We hope you like its new coat of paint and, as ever, if you have any feedback or suggestions, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
The beating heart of the world is reaching new heights in innovation, with technology coming to the forefront in 2018 as an enabler of efficiency and automation.
In the intellectual property industry, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain are beginning to shape the burgeoning technology services landscape, and exciting opportunities for both inventors and law firms alike are beginning to present themselves.
However recent regulation, such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation has drawn a line in the sand for enforcers, resulting in far-reaching consequences across continents, and leaving brands open to attacks from those wanting to hide behind anonymity on the internet.
All this, and more, is discussed inside IPPro: The Annual, which features comment and analysis from the world’s leading IP associations. We hope you like its new coat of paint and, as ever, if you have any feedback or suggestions, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
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Vendor Profiles<br />
J Vabranov & Partners<br />
www.jvpatents.com<br />
J. Varbanov & Partners is one of the oldest and leading IP firms in Bulgaria. We provide professional and cost effective services<br />
and quality advice on all aspects of industrial property matters for the territory of Bulgaria as well as for the EU.<br />
Our team is dealing with establishment, protection and enforcement of industrial property rights derived from patents, trademarks,<br />
industrial designs, including validation of European patents in Bulgaria.<br />
Our staff is made up of Bulgarian and European patent, trademark and design attorneys with great experience. We do filings and<br />
representations before Bulgarian Patent Office, OHIM, WIPO and EPI.<br />
We represent clients before custom authorities in connection with the application of boarder measures and all kinds of<br />
anti-counterfeiting activities. We are members of INTA, ECTA, EPI, UNION of European Practitioners in Industrial Property,<br />
AIPPI, PTMG.<br />
Minesoft<br />
www.minesoft.com<br />
Founded in <strong>19</strong>96, Minesoft develops specialist software solutions in the IP field, providing international patent databases,<br />
competitive intelligence, analytics and customised archive solutions. Minesoft serves many Fortune 500/FTSE 100 companies<br />
around the world as well as state-run patent offices, IP law firms and patent attorney firms. Minesoft’s solutions, developed<br />
and maintained in-house, are designed to help companies protect their innovations and to exploit the value of IP and scientific<br />
information throughout the innovation process.<br />
In May 2003, Minesoft and RWS Group announced their agreement to develop PatBase, a new searchable database of patent<br />
documents designed by experts in the complex art of patent information research. Since the first critically acclaimed public<br />
demonstrations in 2003, PatBase has gone on to attract over 50,000 users worldwide from the best-known names in industry as<br />
well as leading patent litigation firms.<br />
Minesoft has expanded its portfolio of innovative patent information products to include PatBase Express, PatentOrder,<br />
PatentTracker, Legal StatusTracker, CiteTracker, Chemical Explorer, Pat-KM and PatBase Analytics.<br />
In 2009, Minesoft won the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise for an outstanding achievement in rapidly growing export<br />
markets in the field of IP (patent) information.<br />
In 2013, a new Chinese language version of PatBase was launched, in addition to the previous English and Japanese interfaces.<br />
While PatBase Express is available in English, Japanese, Chinese, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese.<br />
In 2015, Minesoft was awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for a second time for an impressive, sustained growth in<br />
international trade.<br />
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