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The European Patent Register, also known as the Register of European Patents, [1] is a public register kept by the European Patent Office (EPO). It contains legal information relating to published European patent applications and European patents granted under the European Patent Convention (EPC). The register notably provides the current legal ...
The European Patent Office (EPO) grants European patents covering the Contracting States to the European Patent Convention and several other states that have concluded extension and validation agreements with the EPO. The EPO provides a single patent grant procedure, but not a single patent from the point of view of enforcement.
The European Patent Convention (EPC), also known as the Convention on the Grant of European Patents of 5 October 1973, is a multilateral treaty instituting the European Patent Organisation and providing an autonomous legal system according to which European patents are granted. The term European patent is used to refer to patents granted under ...
The patents granted in accordance with the EPC are called European patents. [9] In other words, the grant procedure before the EPO is the procedure leading to the grant of a European patent [6] or to the refusal to grant a European patent. [7] The procedure starts with the filing of an application [1] and ends with the grant of a European ...
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Continuation. A "continuation application" is a patent application filed by an applicant who wants to pursue additional claims to an invention disclosed in an earlier application of the applicant (the "parent" application) that has not yet been issued or abandoned. The continuation uses the same specification as the pending parent application ...
In European patent law, the limitation and revocation procedures before the European Patent Office (EPO) are post-grant, ex parte, [ 1] administrative [ 2] procedures allowing any European patent to be centrally [ 3] limited by an amendment of the claims or revoked, respectively. [ 4] These two procedures were introduced in the recently revised ...
A divisional patent application, also called divisional application or simply divisional, is a type of patent application that contains subject-matter from a previously filed application, the previously filed application being its parent application. [1] While a divisional application is filed later than the parent application, it retains its ...