More than a third of European jobs rely on intellectual property rights (IPR) such as patents, trademarks and design rights according to a new pan-European study, which the EU executive will use to boost policymaking.
According to the analysis – produced jointly by the Munich-based European Patent Office and the Office for the Harmonization of the Internal Market based in Alicante, Spain – 39% of all European economic activity, worth €4.7 trillion, arises annually from IPR.
