European Patent Convention — European patent law … Wikipedia
European Patent Organisation — The European Patent Organisation (EPO or EPOrg in order to distinguish it from the European Patent Office, which is one of the two organs of the organisationEPC Article|4|2|a] ) is a public international organisation created in 1977 to grant… … Wikipedia
European Patent Judges' Symposium — The European Patent Judges Symposium (French: Colloque des juges européens de brevets , German: Symposium europäischer Patentrichter ) is a biennial symposium, with the claimed aim of providing a platform for national judges from legal systems… … Wikipedia
European patent law — covers a wide range of legislations including national patent laws, the Strasbourg Convention of 1963, the European Patent Convention of 1973, and a number of European Union directives and regulations. Patents having effect in European states may … Wikipedia
European Patent Litigation Agreement — The draft European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA), or formally the Draft Agreement on the establishment of a European patent litigation system, is a proposed patent law agreement aimed at creating an optional protocol to the European Patent… … Wikipedia
European Patent Lawyers Association — The European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW, formerly EPLA [ EPLAW web site, [http://www.eplaw.org/Downloads/EPLAW%20Response.pdf Response of the European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW) on the Questionnaire On the patent system in Europe… … Wikipedia
Opposition procedure before the European Patent Office — The opposition procedure before the European Patent Office (EPO) is a post grant, contentious, inter partes, administrative [1] procedure intended to allow any European patent to be centrally opposed. European patents granted by the EPO under the … Wikipedia
Standing Advisory Committee before the European Patent Office — The Standing Advisory Committee before the European Patent Office (SACEPO, French: Comité consultatif permanent auprès de l OEB , German: Ständiger Beratender Ausschuss beim EPA ) is a committee advising the European Patent Office (EPO) on patent … Wikipedia
Software patents under the European Patent Convention — Computer programs, software and patent law Topics … Wikipedia
Appeal procedure before the European Patent Office — Decisions of the first instances of the European Patent Office (EPO) can be appealed, i.e. challenged, before the Boards of Appeal of the EPO, in a judicial procedure (proper to an administrative court), as opposed to an administrative procedure … Wikipedia
Grant procedure before the European Patent Office — Graph of European patent applications filed and granted between 1998 and 2007. Note that the average time from filing to grant in 2007 was 43.7 months (3.6 years) The grant procedure before the European Patent Office (EPO) is an ex parte,… … Wikipedia