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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 ...
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.
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.
On 23 March 2016, the agency changed its name to the European Union Intellectual Property Office upon the entry into force of Regulation 2015/2424. Several positions and the governing board were also renamed to mirror these changes; for example, the title of the head of the agency was changed from President to Executive Director. [9]
The German patent has a term of 20 years. After grant of a patent through the EPO or the Euro-PCT route a European patent is valid in Germany without further translation requirements if that country was indicated in the application. If unitary effect is requested upon grant of a European patent, that unitary patent also applies in Germany.
A patent office is a governmental or intergovernmental organization which controls the issue of patents. In other words, "patent offices are government bodies that may grant a patent or reject the patent application based on whether the application fulfils the requirements for patentability ."
The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the other being the European Patent Office (EPO). [22] The Administrative Council acts as the Organisation's supervisory body [ 23 ] as well as, to a limited extent, its legislative body.