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A patent covering Germany can be obtained through four different routes: through the direct filing of a national patent application with the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (German: Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt) (direct national route), through the filing of a European patent application (EPO route), or through the filing of an international application under the Patent Cooperation ...
On 20 February 2002, the European Commission initiated a proposal [1] for a directive to codify and "harmonise" the different EU national patent laws and cement the practice of the European Patent Office of granting patents for computer-implemented inventions provided they meet certain criteria (cf. software patents under the European Patent Convention).
Often, things discovered for the first time are also called inventions and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two. German-born Albert Einstein, world-famous physicist. Germany has been the home of many famous inventors, discoverers and engineers, including Carl von Linde, who developed the modern refrigerator. [2]
A 2023 study by Rochester Institute of Technology found the full term maintenance rate of issued US patents has been fairly constant (40-50%) since 1992. Full term patents have more issued claims and receive on average more citations than earlier expired patents. [96] The European Patent Office charges annual fees for pending applications.
The European patent system offers the home of the world patent system. Venice in 1474 [1] and the British Monopoly Law in 1623, [2] contributed to the earliest patent system. . The development of the European patent system stands for the pioneer and epitome of the evolution of the international patent system; it is the ultimate goal to establish a globalized unified (single) patent syst
The jury, in Delaware, agreed with Apple that previous iterations of Masimo's W1 and Freedom watches and chargers willfully violated Apple's patent rights in smartwatch designs.
As Chinese EVs like BYD swarm Europe’s key markets, historic examples of deindustrialization pose a warning to the continent’s carmakers Ryan Hogg April 10, 2024 at 1:00 AM
The patents covered advances in fields including semiconductors, molecular chemistry and polymers, chemical engineering, nanotechnology and medical technology. Such patents dropped from an annual ...