Impact Funding Resources
The Ideas Powered for business SME Fund is a grant scheme designed to help EU-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) protect their intellectual property (IP) rights. The SME Fund can help you protect many different assets, including trade marks, designs, patents and plant varieties.
The SME Fund offers different vouchers that can be used to claim reimbursement for various IP-related activities. These include applications for trade marks, designs, patents, and plant varieties, and IP Scan services. You could save as much as 75% on IP right applications and 90% on an IP Scan, depending on your country or region.
The SME Fund offers different vouchers that can be used to claim reimbursement for various IP-related activities. These include applications for trade marks, designs, patents, and plant varieties, and IP Scan services. You could save as much as 75% on IP right applications and 90% on an IP Scan, depending on your country or region.
Start Date03 Feb 2025 End Date03 Dec 2025 Funding AmountUpto EUR 1,500 Funding Resource TypeVoucher
Funding ProviderEuropean Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
Voucher
European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
The SME Fund offers different vouchers that can be used to claim reimbursement for various IP-related activities. These include applications for trade marks, designs, patents, and plant varieties, and IP Scan services. You could save as much as 75% on IP right applications and 90% on an IP Scan, depending on your country or region.
Please refer to the guidelines for details
https://euipo.europa.eu/tunnel-web/secure/webdav/guest/document_library/contentPdfs/about_euipo/Grants/GR_001_25/gr_001_25_call_notice_en.pdf
The vouchers are valid for a limited period of time. Therefore, SMEs are encouraged to only apply for a voucher when they are ready to implement one of the eligible activities covered by the voucher. If vouchers are awarded, the eligible activities must be initiated within a specific limited time following the award notification, and a request for reimbursement must be submitted before the voucher expires.
• Voucher 1 will cover IP Scan (IP pre-diagnostic audit) / IP Scan Enforcement services for a maximum grant amount of up to EUR 1 350 per beneficiary
• Voucher 2 amount is up to a maximum of EUR 700 per beneficiary for the Trademarks and designs
• Voucher 3 will cover different patent-related activities, depending on the geographical scope of protection
• Voucher 4 The maximum amount of the voucher is up to EUR 1 500 per beneficiary for Community plant varieties
