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

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

The European Patent Office (EPO) is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the other being the Administrative Council. The...

patents, granted by the European Patent Office under the European Patent Convention and enforced by national courts European patent law This disambiguation...

litigation system, was a proposed patent law agreement aimed at creating an "optional protocol to the European Patent Convention (EPC) which would commit...

The patentability of software, computer programs and computer-implemented inventions under the European Patent Convention (EPC) is the extent to which...

and revocation proceedings of European patents (regular European patents unless they were opted out and unitary patents). A single court ruling is directly...

granting European patents. The Strasbourg Convention has had a significant impact on the EPC, on national patent laws across Europe, on the Patent Cooperation...

its contracting states to grant patents in Europe under the European Patent Convention (EPC) of 1973. The European Patent Organisation has its seat at Munich...

European country to another. Inventorship is generally not considered to be a patentability criterion under European patent law. Under U.S. case law,...

Non-obvious (in United States patent law) or involve an inventive step (in European patent law) Useful (in U.S. patent law) or be susceptible of industrial...

A biological patent is a patent on an invention in the field of biology that by law allows the patent holder to exclude others from making, using, selling...

proposal for a European Union (EU) directive aiming to harmonise national patent laws and practices concerning the granting of patents for computer-implemented...

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

invention. In most countries, patent rights fall under private law and the patent holder must sue someone infringing the patent in order to enforce their...

application of the European Patent Convention and to clarify or interpret important points of law in relation to the European Patent Convention. When fulfilling...

human body are not patentable under European patent law (Article 53(c) EPC). The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office solved this by...

Canadian patent law – Utility in Canadian patent law – Subject matter in Canadian patent law – European patent law – Patent law of the European Union –...

international patent law; (1) the European Union's attempt to harmonize national patent laws by the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and...

European Union patent law is a subset of European patent law. It also serves as the superset of the patent laws of the individual member states of the...

"fathers of the European patent law", or the "father of European patent law". He was President of the Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (German Patent and Trade...

regional body, such as the European Patent Office. Once the patent specification complies with the laws of the office concerned, a patent may be granted for the...

of patents and patent law is generally considered to have started with the Venetian Statute of 1474. There is some evidence that some form of patent rights...

history of United States patent law started even before the U.S. Constitution was adopted, with some state-specific patent laws. The history spans over...

This is a list of legal terms relating to patents and patent law. A patent is not a right to practice or use the invention claimed therein, but a territorial...

Patent law in the Netherlands, or simply Dutch patent law, is mainly governed by the Kingdom Patents Act (Dutch: Rijksoctrooiwet) and the European Patent...

Asia, Europe, and North America. European Patent Organisation Outline of patents Patent offices in Europe Trilateral Patent Offices "Eurasian Patent Organization"...

Patent infringement is the commission of a prohibited act with respect to a patented invention without permission from the patent holder. Permission may...

before the European Patent Office (EPO) is a post-grant, contentious, inter partes, administrative procedure intended to allow any European patent to be centrally...