Today the European Patent Office opens its new Observatory on Patents and Technology. As a first port of call for anyone interested in the future of innovation, the Observatory will quantify and explore trends and challenges throughout the innovation ecosystem. It will also provide industry, innovators, investors, policymakers and in general all actors of the innovation ecosystem with reliable evidence for informed decision-making.
Being on the frontline of technology for the last 50 years, the EPO has an exceptional outlook on technological innovation. The new Observatory will strive to integrate patent intelligence into a wider context and enrich this outlook with data, information and perspectives arising from other actors within the innovation ecosystem. For this purpose, the EPO has created an Observatory: a platform that will equip all of us with an up-to-date understanding into innovation and the role of patents especially in emerging technologies.
Observatory on Patents and Technology starts work today | Epo.org