Ip Exhibitions And The Ipa Award

On 24 April 2025, the exhibition "The Italy of Patents: Successful Inventions and Innovations" was inaugurated at the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, in the presence of the Deputy Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy, Valentino Valentini, and the Commissioner General for Italy at the Japanese exposition, Mario Vattani. The exhibition had previously been displayed in November 2024 at Palazzo Piacentini, MIMIT's headquarters, to celebrate both the 140th anniversary of the founding of UIBM and the 550th anniversary of the publication of the first patent statute, promulgated by the Republic of Venice in 1474. The 2025 edition of the exhibition guided visitors in Osaka, through to October, across more than 100 patents for invention, held by an equal number of Italian companies, startups, universities and research centres, arranged across seven sections: Smart, Green & Safe Mobility; Smart City, Place & Home; Med & Wellbeing; Energy & Climate Tech; Agri & Sea Tech; Aero & Space Tech; and Smart Factory.

On the same day, Industrial Property took centre stage once again at the Italian Pavilion in Osaka with the awards ceremony for the 11 winners of the Intellectual Property Award (6 IPA Award winners and 5 Female Entrepreneurship Award winners), Italian centres of excellence that distinguished themselves in the field of technological innovation and patent development. MIMIT, in collaboration with Invitalia and Netval, thus concluded the 2025 edition of the competition — reserved for Italian universities, national public research bodies and scientific institutes for research, hospitalisation and healthcare holding patents — aimed at promoting the innovative potential of national public research and its contribution to technological progress and economic growth.

On 26 September 2025, the exhibition "Identitalia, The Iconic Italian Brands" was inaugurated at the M9 – Museum of the 20th Century in Venice-Mestre, in the presence of Minister Adolfo Urso, the Mayor of Venice, the President of the Fondazione Venezia, the Vice-President of the Venice-Rovigo Chamber of Commerce, and representatives of the featured brands. The exhibition, which highlighted the symbols of Made in Italy, was promoted by the DGPI-UIBM in collaboration with Unioncamere and the Historical Trademarks of Italy Association (Associazione Marchi Storici d'Italia). Curated by Professors Carlo Martino and Francesco Zurlo (Sapienza University of Rome and the Polytechnic University of Milan), the exhibition took visitors on a journey through more than 100 trademarks: original drawings, iconic objects, period photographs, posters, historical documents, advertising spots and videos that have left their mark on the visual and cultural history of our country.