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The European Patent Office (EPO) [notes 1] is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the other being the Administrative Council. [4] The EPO acts as executive body for the organisation [5] [6] while the Administrative Council acts as its supervisory body [5] as well as, to a limited extent, its legislative body.
The European Patent Office (EPO [notes 1]) examines European patent applications and grants European patents under the European Patent Convention.Its headquarters are located at Munich, Germany, with a branch in Rijswijk (near The Hague, Netherlands), sub-offices in Berlin, Germany, and Vienna, Austria, and a "liaison bureau" in Brussels, Belgium.
Right below it is the dark-coloured headquarters of the European Patent Office, above in the background lies the science museum Deutsches Museum on the other side of the river Isar. Cincinnatistraße branch, Munich Cover of the first German patent 1977 stamp showing the Patent Office from 1877 to 1977. Picture of the new Patent Office building ...
a Unified Patent Court (UPC) competent for the member states of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA). The enforcement of European patents is conducted and decided either at a national level, i.e. before national courts, [1] or at the UPC level, for European patents with unitary effect and European patents that have not been opted out.
Espacenet (formerly stylized as esp@cenet) [1] [2] is a free online service for searching patents and patent applications.Espacenet was developed by the European Patent Office (EPO) together with the member states of the European Patent Organisation.
European divisional applications must be filed directly or by post with one of the filing offices of the EPO, i.e. at the European Patent Office at Munich, The Hague, or Berlin. [28] It may also be filed using the so-called epoline online filing software .
A characteristic of European patent law as it stands today is that European patents granted by the European Patent Office (EPO), and patents granted by national patent offices are available, [3] and may possibly –if permitted by national law and, if so, to the extent permitted by national law [4] – co-exist within a given jurisdiction.
(b) file a new European patent application in respect of the same invention; or (c) request that the European patent application be refused." [94] Under Rule 14(3) EPC, the European Patent Office may resume the grant proceedings at any time [95] "regardless of the stage reached in the national proceedings", taking all valid interests into ...