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IP2Innovate’s mission is to bring balance to Europe’s patent legal system so that it supports innovation and economic growth for the benefit of all.

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Meeting with Marion Walsmann (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Nov 2025 · intellectual property rights

Response to European Innovation Act

24 Sept 2025

IP2Innovate, a coalition of small and large companies whose mission is to bring balance to Europes patent legal system so that it supports innovation, competitiveness and growth, welcomes the objectives of the upcoming European Innovation Act. A balanced patent system is an important prerequisite to ensure Europes global competitiveness in critical technology areas, its attractiveness for companies to invest and do business in, and to increase innovation and the take up of new technologies necessary to bridge the gap in productivity levels when compared to other major economies. Please find our full feedback attached.
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Meeting with Marion Walsmann (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Sept 2025 · IPRED

Meeting with Marion Walsmann (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

26 May 2025 · SEP

Response to Single Market Strategy 2025

28 Jan 2025

IP2Innovate welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the European Commission as it develops its Single Market Strategy 2025. We are concerned that the inconsistent application of the proportionality requirement found in Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRED) constitutes a barrier to the functioning of the EU single market and undermines the purpose of Europes patent system, which is to support innovation and growth. Modernization of the IPRED through targeted amendments is needed to fully exploit the potential of the Single Market to boost Europes productivity. Please find our full feedback attached.
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Meeting with José Cepeda (Member of the European Parliament)

9 Dec 2024 · Intellectual property rights

Meeting with Marion Walsmann (Member of the European Parliament)

29 Oct 2024 · Revision IPRED

Meeting with Anthony Whelan (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)

10 Nov 2020 · Discuss Europe's patent system and its importance for Europe’s innovation and digital leadership

Meeting with Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders)

3 Nov 2020 · Enforcement of intellectual property rights

Meeting with Maria Elena Scoppio (Cabinet of Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni)

1 Oct 2020 · Intelectual Property Action Plan

Response to Intellectual Property Action Plan

12 Aug 2020

IP2Innovate welcomes the opportunity to provide comments on the Commission’s roadmap regarding its upcoming IP Action Plan aimed at upgrading the EU’s IP system. We share the Commission’s view that “well-calibrated and balanced IP policies can […] boost Europe’s industrial competitiveness” and get the EU back “on track towards economic recovery” from the Covid-19 outbreak crisis. We applaud, in particular, the Commission’s commitment in the roadmap to “continue to monitor the application of the IPR Enforcement Directive to ensure it is effective and balanced, particularly on injunctions.” In the digital age, products are increasingly complex, often covered by thousands of patents, which makes them often subject to patent disputes. Because the practice of many European courts is to issue injunctions automatically upon a finding of infringement, without considering whether an alternative remedy might be more proportionate, the accidental infringement of a patent that relates to a minor feature of a complex product can result in that product being removed from the market. Automatic injunctions make Europe more and more attractive to Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), also known as “patent trolls”. PAEs buy up patents only to assert them against innovative companies, including SMEs. They use a threat of an automatic injunction to extract high settlement fees, not based on the value of the underlying invention, but rather based on the damage that would result from the removal of the entire product from the market. The ICT industry, central to growth and innovation across many industries and to Europe’s overall industrial competitiveness, is particularly targeted by PAEs. The EU needs to ensure that the proportionality requirement set out in Article 3(2) of the IPR Enforcement Directive (IPRED) is effectively and consistently applied by courts in EU Member States. In its IP Package of November 2017, the Commission undertook to “work with Member States' national experts and judges on further, more targeted guidelines, to give more detailed and practical guidance on specific IPRED issues, based on best practices experience” with a view to improving the system of judicial enforcement in the EU. Building on this commitment, we call on the Commission to publish guidance to support the homogenous and effective application of the proportionality requirement in patent enforcement. The guidance should contain a list of factors that courts need to consider in deciding whether to issue a permanent injunction upon a finding of patent infringement, or grant an alternative remedy. Such factors should include: • Whether the patent owner relies on the patent to protect a market position or distinguish its products in the marketplace, or whether the patent owner's primary business goal is to receive monetary compensation for licensing to others use of the patent; • Whether an injunction creates leverage for the patent owner disproportionate to the value of the patented technology, such as when the infringement concerns a minor feature of a complex product; • The impact of the injunction on the defendant compared to the benefit to the patent owner; • The impact of the injunction on the public and third parties. Guidance with these factors would promote consistency among EU Member States and balance in Europe’s patent system to avoid disproportionate outcomes and abusive litigation practices. The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has the potential to raise the quality and efficiency of the European patent system if implemented well. However, we would urge that Europe’s patent system be adapted first, otherwise the existing imbalances in the system risk being amplified to the detriment of European innovators. Judges appointed to the UPC should in particular receive training on the economic impact of a Europe-wide injunction against complex products and how the use of judicial discretion can promote European innovation. http://ip2innovate.eu/
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Meeting with Marika Lautso-Mousnier (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

4 Sept 2018 · European patent system, standard essential patents, IPRED

Meeting with Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

20 Nov 2017 · Patents

Meeting with Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

27 Jun 2017 · Patent legal system