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	European Patent Organisation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The European Patent Organisation is not legally bound to the European Union.
		The European Patent Organisation has two organs: the European Patent Office, which can be viewed as its executive body, and the Administrative Council, which can be considered as its legislative body to a limited extent, the actual legislative body for important matters being the Contracting States, when they meet during an intergovernmental Diplomatic Conference.
		The official languages of the European Patent Office are English, French and German.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Patent_Office (1125 words)

	The UK Patent Office - Patents - Glossary of Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The basic conditions of patentability, which an application must meet before it is granted, are that the invention must be novel, contain an inventive step, be capable of industrial application and not be in one of a number of excluded fields.
		A patent application may claim as a priority date the filing date of an earlier patent application provided that the earlier application was (i) filed in the previous 12 months, (ii) filed by the same applicant as the later application and (iii) filed in a Convention country.
		A report to the applicant by a patent examiner, bringing to the applicant’s attention documents which are thought by the patent examiner to establish whether the invention is novel and inventive.
	www.patent.gov.uk /patent/glossary/index.htm (2316 words)

	Appeal procedure before the European Patent Office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In contrast, members of the search divisions and of the examining divisions of the EPO are employed by the European Patent Office.
		The EPO has also proposed that the members of the Boards of Appeal should be appointed for lifetime, "with grounds for termination exhaustively regulated in the EPC".
		European Court of Justice, the appeal court of the European Union, but which is not involved in the appeal procedure before the EPO
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Appeal_procedure_before_the_European_Patent_Office (1052 words)

	General information about patents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		If the patent issued from an application filed prior to June 8, 1995, the term is the later of (1) 17 years from the date of issuance of the patent, or (2) 20 years from the first U.S. filing date for the patent.
		The "priority date" of a patent application is the date which controls what prior art affects its patentability, whether a statutory bar applies, etc. For many patent applications the priority date is the date on which the patent application was filed with the patent office.
		Examiners in the US Patent Office do, to this day, have the power to require submission of a working model in a particular case, but the requirement is imposed very rarely, usually in cases where an applicant claims to have invented a perpetual motion machine.
	www.oppedahl.com /patents (10560 words)

	Recent Decisions from the European Patent Office
		This date was prior to the filing date of the European patent being considered by the appeal board which therefore had to consider whether the Brazilian publication was relevant prior art or whether it was excused as an "evident abuse " of the applicant.
		In one case the EPO stated that inventions should be pegged as being "immoral" only "in those very limited cases in which there appears to be an overwhelming consensus that the exploitation or publication of an invention would be immoral".
		Presumably, in view of Article 88(2) of the European Patent Convention, which permits multiple priority dates in a single claim, this 'prior art' can be cited with respect to only a portion (or element) of a claim which is not entitled to a priority claim.
	www.ladas.com /Patents/epopatent.html (2408 words)

	Software patents under the European Patent Convention (in Patents > Software patents @ iusmentis.com)
		European patents shall be granted for any inventions which are susceptible of industrial application, which are new and which involve an inventive step.
		The scope of this list is reduced by article 52(3) which states that the provisions of paragraph 2 shall exclude patentability of the subject-matter or activities referred to therein only to the extent that an application or a patent relates to such subject-matter or activities as such.
		A patent application must contain a description of the invention in such a way that the invention can be implemented and practiced by a person skilled in the art without undue effort.
	www.iusmentis.com /patents/software/epc (1471 words)

	Ladas & Parry - Protecting Inventions in Europe
		European official fees have historically tended to be rather high, compared to governmental patent fees in other countries, but this is usually attributed to the fact that the EPO must be financially self-supporting.
		However, once the European patent application has been allowed by the Examiner and granted as a European patent, it then becomes incumbent upon the applicant to file translations in the designated countries within applicable time periods, and if a translation is not filed, the underlying invention enters the public domain in the country concerned.
		For example, the EPO tends to take a more limited view of what is patentable when it comes to computer-related inventions involving the use of computer programs, protection for animal and plant life forms and their methods of production, and methods of treatment of humans or animals for surgery, therapy or diagnosis.
	www.ladas.com /Patents/epo.html (2788 words)

	European Patent - cheap alternative
		European Patent is easier and cheaper alternative to obtaining national patents in the countries which are members of the European Patent Convention.
		With one unique European patent application, drafted in one of the official languages (English, French or German) and filed in one filing office, the steps of the grant procedure can be unified.
		The European patent may derive from an independent patent application or, as a regional patent, from an International patent application: this is the case of a Euro-PCT.
	www.european-patent.org (332 words)

	European Patent Office: High Above Legality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The EPO was founded in 1973/1978 with the mission to extend the principle of property in individual creation into the physical world, where forces of nature are harnessed in a peculiar and difficult-to find and easy-to-imitate way.
		However the European Patent Office and some national courts have gradually blurred the formerly sharp boundary between material and immaterial innovation, thus risking to break the whole system and plunge it into a quagmire of arbitrariness, legal insecurity and dysfunctionality.
		Some people have asserted that the breakdown of patentability standards in the mid 80s was to a large extent due to the British group's reluctance to appreciate abstract doctrines such as that of the technical invention.
	swpat.ffii.org /players/epo/index.en.html (5038 words)

	GLP - Intellectual Property Office - European patent
		The patent application, after its publication, confers the same rights as the granted patent itself, or at least the same rights which the published national application would confer in a country which has signed the Convention.
		The patent application may be filed at the European Patent Office in Munich, or at the Department in The Hague or at a branch agency of the Department.
		This is because the patent is not subject to an examination of merit in Italy, and the European Patent, when granted, can replace the Italian patent and reinforce its rights, thus making it more credible.
	www.brevettato.org /en/patents/index.php (749 words)

	EPO answers to Kauppi questions available (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The European Patent Organisation is an independent intergovernmental organisation, which is not subject to Community law or decisions taken by institutions of the Community.
		REPLY: In examining European patent applications the responsible departments of the EPO examining and opposition divisions as well as the boards of appeal are bound by the provisions of the European patent Convention and nothing else.
		Any patent granted by the EPO may be opposed by any person within 9 months after publication of the patent and decisions of the opposition divisions may be appealed to a board of appeal.
	swpat.ffii.org /news/04/kober0114/index.en.html (2039 words)

	European Patent cost savings
		European Patent Convention (EPC) member countries (January, 2003) are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland (incl.
		In addition anyone who has their principle place of business, or is resident in any one of the contracting states may act on their own behalf before the European Patent Office.
		Once a patent is granted, European patent renewal fees are no longer payable, but renewal fees are payable to the national authorities in each of the designated states.
	www.european-patent.org /faq.htm (351 words)

	NEEM PATENT REVOKED BY EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The challenge to the patent had been made at the Munich office of the EPO by three groups: the EU Parliament's Green Party, Dr. Vandana Shiva of the India-based Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements.
		In accepting the challenge and revoking the patent, the four-member panel of the EPO at Munich had agreed that the patent amounted to bio-piracy and that the process for which the patent had been granted had been actually in use in India from time immemorial.
		The first patent is for a refining process that removes fungal contaminants found in extracts from the neem seed, and is used in the manufacture of technical-grade azadirachtin, and in the production of AgriDyne's neem-based bioinsecticides.
	www.twnside.org.sg /title/revoked.htm (876 words)

	European Patent Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The European Patent Office (EPO), located in Munich, The Hague, Berlin, and Vienna, was established in 1977.
		The EPO's task is to grant European patents using a unitary and centralized procedure.
		By filing a single patent application in one of the three official languages (English, French or German), it is possible to obtain patent protection in all 18 member states of the European Patent Organization.
	www.virtualref.com /abs/311.htm (100 words)

	european patent office -- european patent office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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	www.aspatent.com /europeanpatentoffice (3424 words)

	heise online - Strike at European Patent Office
		According to a spokesperson from the Patent Office in a conversation with heise online on this unusual conflict, the strike is the result of the discussion about the implementation of a new assessment procedure for work at the EPA.
		The US Patent and Trademark Office plans to build a different route than its European colleagues to keep control of the flood of patent applications and the tremendous backlog that still needs to be processed.
		Now, the PTO aims to use what it calls a "peer to patent" program to bundle the collective intelligence of citizens and experts online to receive indications of current inventions that can no longer be patented in all fields where applications are filed for industrial property rights.
	www.heise.de /english/newsticker/news/72948 (625 words)

	error could not find boundaries in (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The following list of patent related web-sites is maintained by the European Patent Office as a service to our users.
		The European Patent Office will systematically check for the requirement that these links are related to patents or patent information.
		The EPO will not perfom any further revision or filtering should the proposed link meet this requirement.
	www.european-patent-office.org /online/index.htm (149 words)

	European Patent Office
		The EPO job section has been updated with a new vacancy in Munich - Administrative Employee in Directorate 0.8.1 (Public Relations and Identity) (1.5 year contract)
		The EPO job section has been updated with 4 new vacancies Munich and 1 in The Hague.
		The EPO job section has been updated with a new vacancy in Vienna - Administrator East Asian patent information in Directorate 4.5.4
	www.european-patent-office.org (202 words)

	IFOAM \| European Patent Office Upholds Decision to Revoke Neem Patent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In a landmark decision today, the European Patent Office upheld a decision to revoke in its entirety a patent on a fungicidal product derived from seeds of the Neem, a tree indigenous to the Indian subcontinent.
		Their joint Legal Opposition claimed that the fungicidal properties of the Neem tree had been public knowledge in India for many centuries and that this patent exemplified how international law was being misused to transfer biological wealth from the South into the hands of a few corporations, scientists, and countries of the North.
		Denying the patent means upholding the value of traditional knowledge for millions of women not only in India, but throughout the South.
	www.ifoam.org /press/press/neem_patent_victory.html (771 words)

	european patent
		A draft is prepared by a PandTS patent agent on the basis of spoken or written indications provided by the applicant.
		In order to protect an invention in several European states, it is often easier and more cost-effective to file a European patent application rather than several distinct national applications.
		The EPC has instituted a European Patent that is granted by the European Patent Office (EPO), whose head office is located in Munich (Germany).
	www.patentattorneys.ch /jahia/Jahia/lang/en/pid/33 (186 words)

	European Inventor of the Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Almost 400 visitors gathered at the spectacular Autoworld Museum in Brussels on 3 May to see EPO President Alain Pompidou and European Commission Vice President Günter Verheugen honour the European Inventors of the Year 2006 at the first-ever awards ceremony organised jointly by the two institutions.
		Among the guests were representatives from the European Commission, the European Parliament, SIPO, OAPI, ARIPO and European industries as well as Nicole Fontaine, the former president of the European Parliament.
		Around 140 high-level experts from Europe, the United States and Asia attended the conference to discuss the future of the European patent system and the challenges that China's emergence presents.
	www.european-inventor.com (334 words)

	EPO DG3 search interface English
		The search engine processes the comprehensive text of each decision of the EPO Boards of Appeal contained in the database (since 1979).
		Links to the International Patent Classification (IPC) and to the European Patent Convention (EPC) articles and rules relevant for each decision are also available.
		We look forward to receiving your comments on this new enhancement on European Patent Office homepage.
	legal.european-patent-office.org /dg3/search_dg3.htm (330 words)

	Welcome to epoline® (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The European Patent Office's Online European Patent Register and Online Public File Inspection services will be discontinued with effect from Monday, 14 August 2006.
		Bookmarks that have been created in the Online European Patent Register will be automatically redirected to the corresponding file in Register Plus.
		The EPO Online Services Conference, formerly the epoline® conference, will be held in Lisbon on 4 and 5 October 2006.
	www.epoline.org (476 words)

	European Commission - Research: European Research Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Improving IPR systems and their use is therefore an important dimension of European research policy and the creation of the European Research Area.
		The Commission's Directorate-General for Research is engaged in several activities intended to address the IPR-related needs of the European research community.
		Commission report on the "Development and implications of patent law in the field of biotechnology and genetic engineering" (COM(2002)545)
	ec.europa.eu /research/era/ipr_en.html (524 words)

	European Patent Academy
		OS18-2006 The EPO - an inside view for staff of NPOs: formalities and receiving section
		PW16-2006 Filing a European patent application and entry of an international application into the European phase
		International patenting issues: the PCT and patenting in China
	academy.epo.org /schedule/index.en.php (245 words)

	EPO - European Patent Convention PDF download (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		While the HTML version contains internal links between the articles and rules of the EPC and is optimised for on-line use, the PDF version offers the best solution for off-line browsing including full-text search functionality.
		A dedicated search engine covering the EPO legal texts (EPC, Case Law, Guidelines and Ancillary Regulations) is in preparation and will be available soon.
		: The authentic text of the EPC is that of the printed version of the EPC published by the EPO and, where appropriate, the text of the amendments as published in the printed version of the EPO's Official Journal.
	db1.european-patent-office.org /legal/epc/index.html (151 words)

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