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Intellectual Property Support
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Understand and protect your IP assets - such as trade marks and designs!

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The SME fund is an EU Commission initiative run by the EUIPO. It offers financial support to help you protect your intellectual property – including trade marks, designs, patents and plant varieties.

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Get personalised intellectual property (IP) advice free of charge. The pro bono support experts will help with your IP rights protection for an average of one to four hours.

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Mr. Popper - Marteching Platform
Mr. Popper - Marteching Platform

´Great initiative for start-ups and new companies.´

Darko Majic, Croatia

Marika Bruno
BBP Legal

“Participating in the Pro bono support initiative has been a truly rewarding experience for BBP Legal, giving us the opportunity to use our expertise ...

Marika Bruno, Italy

Razvan Dinca
Dinca & Speciac

“The Pro bono support initiative has allowed our firm to provide meaningful assistance to SMEs that lack the resources for IP protection. Our collabor...

Razvan Dinca - Romania

Financial Europeans
Financial Europeans

‘Applying for a trade mark was super important for us, now that we are expanding to other EU countries, it was crucial to protect our identity and bra...

Ioanna Fotopoulou, Greece

ATP
ATP- Avanzate Tecnologie Plastiche

‘For more than 50 years, we have been in the plastics processing business, producing polypropylene pipes and fittings and polyethylene drip irrigation...

Giuseppe Filannino, Italy

Concrete4change
Concrete4change

'The SME fund was very helpful, supportive, and easy to apply for; it was a short and straightforward process.'

Dr. Sid Pourfalah, Ireland

Vending2be
Vending2be

´Extremely super service, you rarely see that small companies are so actively helped.´

Austria

Onit Sport Oy
Onit Sport Oy

´The SME Fund was very useful for my business. I used it for the IP Scan which is a great first step to creating an intellectual property strategy.´

Laura Andelin, Finland

AldoraTech
AldoraTech

'Through the SME Fund, we have been able to double the budget allocated to intangible protection, which will strategically improve the company's posit...

Ferrán Lumbierres, Spain

PYÖREÄ
PYÖREÄ

´When I searched in EUIPO's website to apply for the European Trade Mark registration, I found about the SME Fund and it was very easy. I think having...

Yulia Garayshina, Spain

Elio De Tullio-Italy
De Tullio & Partners

"We are an international intellectual property tech-law firm founded in 2005, and we support companies, in particular SMEs, in successfully operating ...

Elio De Tullio-Italy

SundayFlies
Sundayflies

'We discovered the SME Fund thanks to our trade mark attorney. Protecting our brand Sundayflies in the EU, USA, and UK was a big financial commitment ...

Ivana Brutenič and Kristína Cichý, Slovakia

 Christos Bezirgiannidis
Biosmart milk solutions

“The SME Fund helped us secure our European trademark quickly and efficiently. As an agri-biotech SME developing microbiome-based technologies, we fou...

Christos Bezirgiannidis, Greece

HechicerIA
HechicerIA

'The SME Fund initiative has allowed us to finance our trade mark registration in Europe and part of the costs of the feasibility analysis of our pate...

Álvaro Sáez, Spain

Phytocode
Phytocode

'The SME Fund is a great initiative, helpful for small companies and easy to apply for. For cosmetic companies is very important to register the trade...

Margarita Nesheva, Bulgaria

Olia Scarves
Olia Scarves

'The SME Fund is a great initiative. Applying was straight forward and the support team was very helpful. An altogether positive experience. Highly re...

Oly Theofanopoulou, Greece

Zirtui
Zirtui

'As an active player in the IP field, I appreciate the immense importance of IP. However, the cost burden of protecting IP forced me to postpone essen...

Dr. Ellen Crabbe, Belgium

Ayxon-Dynamics GmbH
Ayxon-Dynamics GmbH

'Our experience with SME Fund was great. We successfully applied and got the funding for the design fee and the IP-Scan.'

Grit Landsberg, Germany

Ventilaqua
VentilAQUA

‘VentilAQUA's innovation strategy is based on the protection of its intellectual property, be it trade marks, designs or patents.The SME Fund has prov...

Carlos Oliveira, Portugal

ZIPa
ZiPa

'With the support of the SME Fund, we managed to register the ZiPa trade mark and design. There is a common perception that trade mark registration is...

Jānis Bernāns, Latvia

Cerannic
Cerannic

'Not expensive, nor complicated! The assessment of intellectual property (IP Scan) and the development of a strategy cost me €70. The remaining amount...

Annija Kanska, Latvia

Mara Ciju
Mara Ciju - Intellectual Property Studio

“Taking part in the Pro Bono Support service has been an incredibly positive experience. I have provided assistance to numerous micro-companies from R...

Mara Ciju, Romania

Daniel Bueder
Bueder Avocat

“This initiative has been empowering, connecting legal professionals like us with SMEs and fostering a collaborative environment. It has provided valu...

Daniel Bueder, France

Diana Harlova TED BED EAD
TED BED EAD

'Intellectual property is a valuable asset in each and every organisation, it brings sense of existence as well as strategic tool for globalising the ...

Diana Harlova, Bulgaria

Mellifera
MelliGEL

'The SME Fund is a great help for start-ups. It provides vouchers for discount and facilitates the IP registration process in the most user-friendly w...

B.Lowndes-Nikolova,Bulgaria

Savee
Savee

´With the support of the SME Fund, I have set a foundation to promote SAVEE and I will have three Austrian and European trade marks and designs. It´s ...

Tobias Schaller, Austria

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