December 2019, Apple has filed several patent applications for inventions in the United States including an application US 20200213311 A1 entitled "PROVIDING VERIFIED CLAIMS OF USER IDENTITY". The idea of the development arose due to problems with the technical possibilities of identifying a user when working with the Apple Pay application and making payments. According to the vice-president of Apple, to be legal, the person must be identified by the government using the documents identifying that person. But, in this case, what about Internet payments, which require the user identification to succeed?

Since 2017, the European Patent Office (EPO) has been conducting its own Academic Research Program. The aim of this initiative is to encourage scientific works, which highlight the interaction between intellectual property sphere (IP) and the European economy. Within Academic Research Program, grants will be given to projects studying the following thematic areas...

Biotechnology has long been an important industry in Europe, which provides a large number of jobs, as well as socially and industrially useful developments in the field from medical and pharmaceutical processes and products to industrial and agricultural ones. In most cases, the procedure for obtaining a European patent in the field of biotechnology does not differ from one in any other field. However, patent applications that relate to plants and animals have long been highly controversial...

Remdesivir is the only medication so far that has been approved by USA Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) for COVID-19 treatment. However, the presence of the valid patents in the countries complicates significantly production of the generic medications that, generally, are sold at lower prices, and are more affordable for the population than original medications...

Globally, the issue of the interaction policy between AI and intellectual property was raised by the World Intellectual Property Organization at the end of 2019. It received a wide response around the world. Therefore, since December 13, 2019, WIPO received more than 250 applications from companies, private individuals and patent offices, in response to the first draft of the document on the interaction of AI with intellectual property. As a result of this discussion, on May 29, 2020, WIPO published a second, expanded and amended version of the document...

On May 7, 2020, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published an announcement regarding a new pilot program for reviewing patent applications related to COVID-19. Applications submitted by small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as private individuals, will have a higher priority when examined by the expertise, without paying any additional fees. The main goal of the USPTO initiative is...