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About the project

Search IP.law aggregates online intellectual property (IP) textual publications and presents them to the user in a relevant, coherent, and user-friendly way. Instead of jumping between Curia, EUR-Lex, the EUIPO website, blogs, and academic databases, you search them all from one place and read the results side by side.

The tool focuses on four general areas:

  1. The jurisprudence of the EU court system (Curia)
  2. EUIPO practice guidelines (Guidelines)
  3. IP blogs
  4. Academic articles covering that jurisprudence

The goal of the tool is to facilitate understanding of intellectual property law, with a focus on European legislation. The project is easily applicable to other jurisdictions and we are seeking collaborators to test the performance of the tool and to map further online IP resources.

Each result is enriched with structured metadata — jurisdiction, case number, parties, subject matter, labels — and, where available, an AI-generated long summary that is revealed only when you ask for it. Source links to the original HTML, PDF, and EUR-Lex documents are always one click away, so the tool augments rather than replaces the underlying sources.

To get in touch write to: info@searchip.com

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About us

We are two IP scholars and practitioners who met at the MIPLC (Munich Intellectual Property Law Center) in 2015 and share a passion for intellectual property and open access to legal information.

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Ivan Stepanov is adoctoral candidate the Friedrich-Alexander Univercity in Erlangen Germany. Previously he was a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institutefor Innovation and Competition in Munich. Ivan has published in highly ranked journals.

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Luca Valente is alegal practitioner and litigator in the field of Italian and European IP law, with experiences in both the European Patent Office and the European Intellectual Property Office. He also acted as a tutor for the World Intellectual Property Organization.