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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 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 ...
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 Organisation (sometimes abbreviated EPOrg[1] in order to distinguish it from the European Patent Office, one of the two organs of the organisation [2]) is a public international organisation created in 1977 by its contracting states to grant patents in Europe under the European Patent Convention (EPC) of 1973. [3][4][5] The ...
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 ...
The Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office (or, for short, the EPO Guidelines) are general instructions, for the examiners working at the European Patent Office (EPO) as well as for the parties interacting with the EPO, on the practice and procedure at the EPO in the various aspects of the prosecution of European patent applications and European patents.
The purpose of the EPO opposition proceedings is to give members of the public, such as competitors of the patent proprietor, the opportunity to challenge centrally before the EPO the validity of a granted European patent. [8] [notes 1] No commercial or any other interest whatsoever need be shown. [3] That is, the "opponent's motives are of no ...
Article 123 of the European Patent Convention (EPC) [1] relates to the amendments under the EPC, i.e. the amendments to a European patent application or patent, and notably the conditions under which they are allowable. In particular, Article 123 (2) EPC prohibits adding subject-matter going beyond the content of the application as filed, while ...