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Protecting Digital Health Inventions – Patents and Trade Secrets

September 2025

 

Video overview:

Protecting digital health inventions in Europe raises challenges due to the fast moving and cross disciplinary nature of these innovations.

This video highlights the choices of IP available, in particular patents and trade secrets, for software-based medical technologies, and how these types of assets can shape IP portfolios in this technology space.

 

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