to grant a European patent application may be appealed by the applicant. The appeal procedure before the European Patent Office is under the responsibility...

The opposition procedure before the European Patent Office (EPO) is a post-grant, contentious, inter partes, administrative procedure intended to allow...

The grant procedure before the European Patent Office (EPO) is an ex parte, administrative procedure, which includes the filing of a European patent application...

to grant a patent for an invention. The patents granted by the European Patent Office are called European patents. The European Patent Office (EPO) grants...

appointed position. Appeal procedure before the European Patent Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) "Appeals (Patent Trial and Appeal Board)". United...

Commerce. Appeal procedure before the European Patent Office Ex parte Gutta (2009) Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences...

the patent proprietor only. The EPC provides a legal framework for the granting of European patents, via a single, harmonised procedure before the European...

European Patent Office – Appeal procedure before the European Patent Office – Case Law of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office – List of...

The European patent with unitary effect, also known as the unitary patent, is a European patent which benefits from unitary effect in the 17 participating...

In European patent law, the limitation and revocation procedures before the European Patent Office (EPO) are post-grant, ex parte, administrative procedures...

juristic person (i.e., a party to the proceedings) needs to be represented in proceedings before the European Patent Office (EPO). There is no general obligation...

European patent law covers a range of legislations including national patent laws, the Strasbourg Convention of 1963, the European Patent Convention of...

Office rules are again in line with the current practice before the patent offices in the U.S., Germany, and Japan. Before the European Patent Office...

countries where the UPCA was in force upon grant of the European patent. Appeal against decisions of the European Patent Office (EPO) regarding the grant of...

patent office responsible for granting European patents covering the Contracting States to the European Patent Convention (EPC). Under PCT procedures...

European Patent Office, Case Law of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO (9th edition, July 2019), i.a.2.4 : "Computer-implemented inventions" European Patent...

A patent application is a request pending at a patent office for the grant of a patent for an invention described in the patent specification and a set...

was the former director of the USPTO until he left office on January 20, 2021. The USPTO cooperates with the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Japan...

of procedure and a common appeal court". It differed from the Unified Patent Court Agreement in that the EPLA negotiations were coordinated from the side...

Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office (unrelated to the EU institutions) in the sphere of computing, and those who asserted that the directive...

matters and procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing patent applications and oppositions to granted patents. The term "patent attorney"...

patent validity (or examiners' refusals to grant patents) can be challenged at Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). The US Court of Appeals for the Federal...

Service for the Boards of Appeal, European Patent Office, Case Law of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO (9th edition, July 2019), i.c.2 : "State of the art"...

Patent prosecution describes the interaction between applicants and their representatives, and a patent office with regard to a patent, or an application...

regional patent offices provide procedures for reconsidering whether or not a given patent is valid after grant. Under the European Patent Convention...

and opinions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) in chronological order of their date of issuance. The list includes decisions...

T 0059/93 () of 20 April 1994, European Patent Office, Boards of Appeal, 20 April 1994 "The Gravity of the U.S. Patent Swindle". Wall Street Journal....

During the grant procedure before the European Patent Office (EPO), divisional applications can be filed under Article 76 EPC out of pending earlier European...

court of the European Union in matters of European Union law. As a part of the Court of Justice of the European Union, it is tasked with interpreting EU...

President of the European Patent Office under Article 112 (1) (b) EPC of October 22, 2008, Statement According to Article 11 b Rules of Procedure of the Enlarged...