Sardinia is not a land of patents. In 2023, only 7 were registered at the Chambers of Commerce, while in the previous year 12 were filed, with a decrease of 43.26%. In general, in Italy these registrations have grown from 4,773 in 2022 to 4,780 in 2023, with a percentage increase of 0.13%, or + 6 filings.
The data emerges from the analysis relating to the registration of patents carried out by the Confartigianato Sardegna Research Office on UnionCamere-Infocamere 2023 data. "It is sad to see how Sardinian companies struggle to register, and therefore protect, products, ideas, brands, software, packaging, machinery and production procedures - comments Giacomo Meloni, president of Confartigianato Imprese Sardegna - despite the fact that every year there are several million euros available that cover, almost entirely, the entire process at the Chambers of Commerce".
Patenting and registering for production activities means minimizing the risk of being "robbed", which happens every day with ease and speed; for companies, this situation turns into a nightmare when they realize that they can no longer market their goods on national and foreign markets because an unfair competitor has registered or patented a brand or an identical production.
"Everything is copied now," Meloni adds, "and businesses, especially those in manufacturing, fashion and agri-food, are increasingly having difficulty protecting what they produce and market. It is increasingly common to hear of businesses that see their product or brand copied," she continues, "and to find on the same shelf, as many companies know, a product with a similar brand, but of a lower quality, perhaps from some Italian competitor or foreign company."
