{"id":18053,"date":"2025-02-10T10:58:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T08:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obi.gr\/?p=18053"},"modified":"2025-02-13T14:28:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T12:28:21","slug":"sme-fund-2025-temporary-closure-of-application-submission-for-vouchers-3-and-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obi.gr\/en\/sme-fund-2025-temporary-closure-of-application-submission-for-vouchers-3-and-4\/","title":{"rendered":"SME Fund 2025: Temporary closure of application submission for Vouchers 3 and 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #404040; font-weight: normal;\">&#8220;We would like to inform you that due to the large number of applications submitted by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) since the launch of the SME Fund for 2025 (February 3, 2025), the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) notifies the interested public that, specifically for <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #404040;\">Voucher 3 (Patents)<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #404040; font-weight: normal;\"> and <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #404040;\">Voucher 4 (Plant Varieties)<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #404040; font-weight: normal;\">, the remaining available budget has led to a <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #404040;\">temporary closure of application submissions <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #404040; font-weight: normal;\">for these vouchers<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #404040;\">, effective today, Monday, February 10, 2025, at the end of the business day.<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"margin: calc(var(--ds-md-zoom)*12px)0; line-height: var(--ds-md-line-height); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #404040; font-weight: normal;\">Vouchers 3 and 4 are expected to reopen if unused funds become available from unutilized vouchers within their designated timeframe, and this will continue until the available budget is exhausted.<\/span><\/strong><b><\/b><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"margin: calc(var(--ds-md-zoom)*12px)0; line-height: var(--ds-md-line-height); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #404040; font-weight: normal;\">The SME Fund platform remains open and continues to accept applications for <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #404040;\">Voucher 1 (IP Scan) and Voucher 2 (Trademarks and Industrial Designs).&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><b><\/b><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See more in the <strong>SME corner<\/strong> here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euipo.europa.eu\/en\/sme-corner\">https:\/\/www.euipo.europa.eu\/en\/sme-corner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We would like to inform you that due to the large number of applications submitted by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) since the launch of the SME Fund for 2025 (February 3, 2025), the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) notifies the interested public that, specifically for Voucher 3 (Patents) and Voucher 4 (Plant Varieties), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":17810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,72],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-important-en","8":"category-nea-en"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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