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An energy performance certificate (EPC) is a rating scheme to summarise the energy efficiency of buildings or devices. [1] [2] European Union.
The European Political Community (EPC) was founded as an intergovernmental platform aimed at facilitating political and economic coordination among European states, with a principal objective on strengthening cooperation in areas such as security, economic stability, and democratic governance.
This was not foreseen under the former regulations. [15] Under the new rules, if the claims as filed in a European patent application contain a plurality of independent claims in the same claim category and if the EPO considers in that case that the claims therefore do not comply with Rule 43(2) EPC, the EPO may "invite the applicant to ...
According to the case law of the Boards of Appeal, if a European patent contains a feature that was not disclosed in the application as filed (in contravention of Article 123(2) EPC) and if the removal of this feature would extend the scope of protection beyond the scope conferred by the patent as granted (in contravention of Article 123(3) EPC ...
In May 2023, Switzerland expressed an interest in hosting an EPC summit in spring 2025. [41] Serbia has also expressed an interest in hosting a future summit. [ 42 ] During the closing press conference of the 4th summit, the British prime minister, Keir Starmer , confirmed that the next summit will take place in Hungary followed by summits in ...
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 EPC will become more significant from April 2014 when Domestic Renewable Heat Incentives (RHI) become available. The amount of the deemed expected annual heat use for a domestic property can be obtained from the EPC and this will determine the amount of Domestic RHI which is payable on installing renewable heat options like ground source ...
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.