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| | European Patent Convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A single patent application may be filed at the European Patent Office at Munich, at its branches at The Hague or Berlin or at a national patent office of a Contracting State, if the national law of the State so permits. | | | The Convention on the Grant of European Patents of 5 October 1973, commonly known as the European Patent Convention (EPC), is a multilateral treaty instituting the European Patent Organisation and providing an autonomous legal system according to which European patents are granted. | | | Once granted, a European patent becomes a bundle of nationally-enforceable patents, except for the provision of a time-limited, unified, post-grant opposition procedure. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_patent
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| | Introduction European Patent Office |
| | Renewal fees for European patents, on the other hand, are collected by the designated contracting states and determined by national law. | | | The main task of the EPO is to grant European patents according to the European Patent Convention (EPC). | | | A further task is to perform, on the behalf of patent offices of certain member states, state of the art searches for the purpose of national procedures and to carry out searches on request of third parties. |
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http://www.uspto.gov/web/tws/tsr2000/1intro_epo.htm
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| | European Patent Attorney Axel H. Horns on European Patents |
| | A European patent has, in each of the Contracting States for which it is granted, the effect of and be subject to the same conditions as a national patent granted by that State, unless otherwise provided in the EPC (Art. | | | A European Patent is not unitary in its nature, in fact the grant of a European patent may be requested for one or more of the Contracting States (Art. | | | Boards of Appeal are installed within the EPO which are responsible for the examination of appeals from the decisions of the Receiving Section, Examining Divisions, Opposition Divisions and of the Legal Division. |
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http://www.ipjur.com/10.php3
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| | Patent Search Glossary |
| | As a centralised patent grant system administered by the European Patent Office on behalf of all contracting states, it is a model of successful co-operation in Europe. | | | The European Patent Organisation is comprised of its legislative body, the Administrative Council and its executive body, the European Patent Office. | | | Established by the Convention on the Grant of European Patents (EPC) signed in Munich 1973, the EPO is the outcome of the European countries' collective political determination to establish a uniform patent system in Europe. |
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http://www.internationalpatentsearch.com/glossary.html
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| | S.I. No. 392/1996: EUROPEAN PATENT ORGANISATION (DESIGNATION AND IMMUNITIES) ORDER, 1996. |
| | The effect of this order is to enable the privileges and immunities of the European Patent Organisation under the European Patent Convention and the Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the European Patent Organisation to be implemented pursuant to the Diplomatic Relations and Immunities Acts, 1967 and 1976. | | | Consequently, a Contracting State has the duty to waive the immunity in all cases where, in the opinion of that State, such immunity would impede the course of justice and where it can be waived without prejudicing the purposes for which it was accorded. | | | The Contracting States shall accord the Organisation the currency exemptions which are necessary for the exercise of its official activities. |
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http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZSI392Y1996.html
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| | report-EPO-Dipl.Conf.htm |
| | The national courts and appeal divisions of the patent offices of the contracting states have generally followed this decision. | | | According to the proposal, the unitary EU patent will, after grant, no longer be subject to the national law of the member states, but only to Community Law in the form of the Council Regulation. | | | The aim of the revision was to subject the European patent system to cautious modernization, while maintaining the proven principles of substantive patent law and procedural law which underlie the 1973 EPC. |
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http://www.aippi.org/reports/report-EPO-Dipl.Conf.htm
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| | EPO - Legislative Initiatives in European Patent Law |
| | Within the framework of the European Union, the Community patent was re-launched in August 2000 when the Commission published a proposal for a Regulation on the Community patent. | | | the draft European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA) which was finalised in November 2003 and is now ready for submission to an Intergovernmental Conference for adoption. | | | the absence of a common European litigation scheme to deal with infringement and validity of European patents. |
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http://patlaw-reform.european-patent-office.org
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| | Slovenia and Hungary to Join European Patent Organisation |
| | The two new contracting States may be designated also in European patent applications filed during the month preceding the entry into force of the EPC if the applicant expressly requests upon filing that the filing date be postponed accordingly. | | | The European Patent Convention will be in force for Slovenia as from 1 December 2002 and for Hungary as from 1 January 2003, increasing the total of contracting States to 26. | | | The designation of Slovenia for a national patent in a PCT application will be considered as a request for the grant of a European patent. |
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http://www.sib.it/engsib/novita/pat/161202.htm
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| | A conference of the contracting states shall be convened to revise the European Patent Convention. | | | The draft Act revising the European Patent Convention is published. | | | On June 24 and 25 1999 in Paris, France, the European member states of the Munchen convention met and discussed the software patent issue. |
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http://petition.eurolinux.org/index_html/reference/agenda???
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| | The UK Patent Office - About us and policies - Council of European Patent Organisation Fails to Agree New President |
| | The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation could not agree a nomination for a President to succeed Ingo Kober at a meeting on 20 March 2003. | | | The UK is pleased that Alison Brimelow, Chief Executive of the UK Patent Office, remains committed to her candidacy and the need to address the issues facing the EPO. | | | The Council has therefore agreed to rerun the process in June with Member States having until 9 May to nominate candidates. |
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http://www.patent.gov.uk/about/notices/2003/president.htm
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| | Software Patents vs Parliamentary Democracy |
| | Patent administration officials have used the pretext of TRIPs adaptation to suddenly, in a unilateral administrative act, declare software patents valid by law, subject to Parliament approval in the first half of 2005. | | | While the EU Parliament has proposed a clear exclusion of software patents, the Commission and Council have ignored the Parliament's proposal and reinstated the most uncompromisingly pro-patent text in May 2004. | | | The European Parliament is likely to begin its second reading of the directive on the basis of a legally questionable "common position" in April. |
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http://swpat.ffii.org/index.en.html
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| | European Patent Office: High Above Legality |
| | The EPO's copyright notice moreover labeled the content of the CDs as "proprietary information", although according to existing laws patents are public and the copyright on them cannot be enforced. | | | However the European Patent Office and some national courts have gradually blurred the formerly sharp boundary between material and immaterial innovation, thus risking to break the whole system and plunge it into a quagmire of arbitrariness, legal insecurity and dysfunctionality. | | | Meanwhile, the EPO is doing just the opposite today: it is granting patents for broad and general principles and extending this practise into the sphere of copyright. |
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http://swpat.ffii.org/players/epo/index.en.html
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| | The European qualifying examination (EQE) :: European qualifying examination |
| | Candidates need to be particularly conversant with European patent law, the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), the Paris Convention, EPO board of appeal case law and certain national laws in so far as they apply to European patent applications and European patents. | | | Candidates may be permitted to submit their answers in another official language of a contracting state. | | | The EQE is designed to establish whether the candidate has the requisite aptitude and knowledge to represent applicants before the EPO. |
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http://eqe.european-patent-office.org/site/index.en.php
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| | BLOG@IP::JUR.COM - Patent Attorney Axel H. Horns' blog on Intellectual Property Law |
| | European patent applications filed on or after 1 December 2004 will include the designation of the new contracting state. | | | Extended European patent applications and patents will enjoy essentially the same protection in Serbia and Montenegro as the patents granted by the EPO for the currently 29 member states of the European Patent Organisation. | | | Extension of European Patents to Serbia and Montenegro. |
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http://www.ipjur.com/2004_10_01_archive.php3
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| | Patent Associations |
| | Patent and Trademark Depository Library Association (PTDLA) discovers the interests, needs, opinions, and goals of the Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries (PTDLs), and to advise the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) in these matters for the benefit of PTDLs and their users, and to assist the PTO in planning and implementing appropriate services. | | | European Patent Attorneys (EPA), are members of EPI. | | | The Patent Office Professional Association - POPA is the professional labor organization for Patent Examiners providing information about the United States Patent and Trademark Office from an employee perspective. |
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http://www.piug.org/patassoc.html
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| | Judgment 2440 - ILO Administrative Tribunal |
| | At the initiative of the Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO), a plan of action was voted on 27 March 2001, calling in particular for the blocking of B84/B85 notifications, which has the effect of slowing down the processing of patent applications. | | | The Organisation at no point gave his case due consideration, as evidenced by the standard letter he was sent and which assumed a decrease in production on the part of all participants in the aforementioned actions. | | | Following negotiations with the staff representatives, the President informed all staff in communiqué No. 79 of 19 July 2001 that the amounts withheld would be refunded, which in the complainant’s case occurred at the end of that month. |
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http://www.ilo.org/public/english/tribunal/fulltext/2440.htm
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| | - Administrative Tribunal |
| | The medical certificates he supplies show that the EPO is not to blame for the state of his health. | | | On 10 June 1981 he wrote to the President of the European Patent Office filing two internal appeals. | | | Christian Paul André Maugain on 5 February 1982 and brought into conformity with the Rules of Court on 11 May, the EPO's reply of 2 August, the complainant's rejoinder of 21 October and the EPO's letter of 12 November to the Registrar stating that it did not wish to file a surrejoinder; |
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http://www.ilo.org/public/english/tribunal/fulltext/0552.htm
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| | Best Practices: PATLIB Network |
| | Within the framework of the multilateral co-operation programme with the EPO member states on patent information training, PATLIB Centres are entitled to benefit from seminars and courses organised upon request of the national offices at premises proposed by them. | | | Furthermore, a public exhibition on patents and patent information products is held in parallel with the Conference. | | | In several member states an expansion of the local PATLIB Network with smaller patent information units in addition to new Centres is planned. |
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http://www.wipo.int/sme/en/best_practices/patlib.htm
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| | English - Frontpage: The Icelandic Patent Office |
| | Amendment to the Patent Act passed by parliament. | | | 53/2004 to change the Patent Act, no. 17/1991, to conform to the European Patent Convention entered into force on June 14th. | | | Change of Patents Act No. 17/1991, with later amendments, that entered into force on 22 March 2005. |
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http://www.els.stjr.is/focal/webguard.nsf/key2/indexeng.html
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| | AEL (Association Electronique Libre) WikiWiki - Manif Against Software Patents |
| | Patents favour huge companies which can afford a legal department and the costs for long-year, costly patent disputes using expensive patent attorneys. | | | If the EuropeanParliament does not stand up again against the patent family and approves the SwpatDirective as it is being drafted now again by the patent family, more than 30.000 already granted SoftwarePatents(see PatentInformationLeafletsLinks) would become enforceable all over europe! | | | Event "Software patents from legal worldplay to economic reality" with Brian Kahin and Lawrence Lessig at the Dorint Hotel 7 May 14-18:00 organized by FFII, close to the Parliament at Bd Charlemagne 11-19 |
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http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/ManifAgainstSoftwarePatents
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| | esp@cenet® Portal |
| | The roadshows are complemented with comprehensive documentation about esp@cenet, patent information, the EPO and patents in general. | | | Electronic communication and transaction during the patent granting procedure | | | transfer specialists participated in intense programmes using esp@cenet to search, retrieve and study patent documents. |
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http://www.espacenet.com
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| | esp@cenet helpfiles - About the esp@cenet network. |
| | If a patent document was published in several countries, then one representatieve document has been selected for inclusion in the esp | | | can also be used to find English-language abstracts of documents in the European Patent Office's in-house databases of patents from throughout the world (a list of the countries covered is shown in the table). | | | EPO, France, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States and WIPO. |
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http://ep.espacenet.com/espacenet/ep/en/help/1.htm
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| | European Patent Organisation |
| | European patents shall not be granted in respect of: (a) inventions the publication or exploitation of which would be contrary to "ordre public" or morality, pro- vided that the exploitation shall not be deemed to be so contrary merely because it is prohibited by law or regulation in some or all of the Contracting States; | | | (I) European patents shall be granted for any inventions which are susceptible of industrial application, which are new and which involve an inventive step. | | | (3) The provisions of paragraph 2 shall exclude patent- ability of the subject-matter or activities referred to in that provision only to the extent to which a European patent application or European patent relates to such subject-matter or activities as such. |
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http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/cl/epo1.html
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| | EPO Patent Information Conference 2005 :: Budapest, 8-10 November 2005 |
| | Following their successful co-operation in 1999, 2001 and 2003, the European Commission and the European Patent Office are joining forces again, combining the PATINNOVA and EPO Patent Information Conferences to promote the value of patents and patent information. | | | Copyright © 1996-2005 European Patent Office - all rights reserved | | | This joint conference is being organised in close association with the Hungarian Patent Office. |
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http://www.patinnova.org
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| | European Patent Office |
| | Electronic communication and transaction during the patent granting procedure | | | Training at the EPO Patent Information Conference in Budapest – 7.10.2005 | | | General Conditions for the delivery of EPO information products |
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http://www.european-patent-office.org
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| | European Patent Office - Hearings |
| | Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office | | | Uwe Dreiss, Member of the Board, Chamber of Patent Attorneys, Munich | | | In the context of a public consultation process in the European Patent Organisation, the European Patent Office organised a series of public hearings with its main user groups. |
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http://hearings.european-patent-office.org
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| | European Patent Organisation - PCT consultation process |
| | In the context of recent developments such as the introduction by WIPO of the ISO or the granting of ISA status to the Finnish Office, the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation has decided at its June 2004 meeting to launch a strategy debate on the co-operation within the Organisation. | | | To this end, the Chairman of the Council is making his personal position paper (which confines itself to suggestions about relevant goals in the given context), along with the position papers received from member states of the Organisation, available to the interested public and to the numerous parties in the process (see CA/70/04 + Addenda). | | | It should be noted that only submissions made in good time for the Council meetings can be given due consideration. |
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http://ac.european-patent-office.org/pct_consultation_process/index.en.php
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| | Welcome to epoline® |
| | The electronic filing of documents relating to opposition and appeal proceedings is not yet admissible. | | | epoline® - the way to do IP epoline® is the name given to the range of online products and services designed by the European Patent Office (EPO) to allow patent applicants, attorneys and other users to conduct their business with the EPO electronically in a state-of-the-art secure environment. | | | This conference is a real opportunity to learn about the online products and services of the European Patent Office such as epoline® and esp@cenet® as well as hear specialist speakers talking on the theme 'The future of the IP infrastructure in Europe'. |
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http://www.epoline.org
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| | Organisation profile: European Patent Office |
| | The EPO also deals with european patent applications from all member states (see URL, already more extended than the EU). | | | The EPO is part of the WIPO, dealing with international patent applications according to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) in collaboration with the USPTO (USA) and JPO (Japan). | | | Search directories for keywords and phrases (use ~ for space within keys; most word-initial regular expressions can be used; no slashes or backslashes) |
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http://www.elsnet.org/orgs/3247.html
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| | EPO member states |
| | homepage => general presentation => EPO member states | | | The following states are currently members of the European Patent Organisation. | | | Additional info dedicated to the national offices of the member states and their patent info centres |
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http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/members.htm
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| | Omniseek: /Arts & Humanities /Humanities /History /European /Hungary |
| | Hungary in the European Patent Organisation from 2002 | | | Hungary took the first diplomatic steps in 1996 in the interest of her accession to the European Patent Organisation. | | | The latest event in this process was the decision of the European Patent Organisation in January 1999 by which Hungary was invited, on th |
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http://www.omniseek.com/srch/{69844}
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: EP: EPO |
| | EPO has several meanings:Erythropoietin (hormone)European Patent Organisation or its main organ the European Patent OfficeEmergency Power Off - the 'big red button' for shutting off power in an emergencyEsperanto (in... |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/E/EP/EPO
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| | FICPI - Federation International des Conseils en Propriete Industrielle |
| | An organisation which concerns itself with the needs and aspirations of intellectual property attorneys and their clients, and administers a code of professional conduct. | | | FICPI is an organisation working for the interests of Patent and Trademark professionals world-wide. | | | It is our firm belief that intellectual property attorneys, who work internationally with all parts of the world will get many benefits from joining our Federation : You will be linked to one of the most prestigious international organisation, the only such organisation whose membership consists solely of intellectual property attorneys in private practice. |
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http://www.ficpi.org
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