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	European Patent Convention Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Although the term European patent is used to refer to patents granted by the EPO, after grant such a patent is not a unitary right, but a group of essentially independent nationally-enforceable, nationally-revocable patents, subject to revocation and/or narrowing as a group pursuant a time-limited, unified, post-grant opposition procedure.
		While the European Patent Convention does not totally overcome the need for translations (since a translation may be required after grant to validate a patent in a given EPC Contracting State), it does centralise the prosecution in one language and defers the cost of translations until the time of grant.
		A European patent confers rights on its proprietor, in each Contracting State in respect of which it is granted, from the date of publication of the mention of its grant in the European Patent Bulletin.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /European_Patent_Convention (3354 words)

	EXAMINATION AND OBSERVATION PROCEDURES
		Patent offices in developing countries are likely to receive a large and growing number of applications claiming protection for pharmaceutical processes, second uses of known products and formulation of products already in the market.
		Opposition procedure may help prevent the granting of improper patents in the health-related sector and other fields of technology, while also strengthening finally granted patents.
		After the granting of a patent, any interested person may apply for an order before the Patent Office to revoke the patent on any of the grounds upon which the grant of the patent could have been refused.
	www.southcentre.org /publications/publichealth/publichealth-10.htm (743 words)

	Patent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which is new, inventive, and useful or industrially applicable.
		Patents are solely enforced through civil lawsuits (for example, for a US patent, by an action for patent infringement in a United States federal court).
		Patent licensing agreements are effectively contracts in which the patent owner (the licensor) agrees not to sue the licensee for infringement of the licensor's patent rights.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patent (2761 words)

	Patent - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or substance (known as an invention) which is new, inventive and useful.
		Most fundamentally, granting a patent confers a monopoly of sorts upon an owner, because he may legally exclude competitors from using or exploiting the invention (though strictly speaking, the word "monopoly" requires that there is no viable alternative in the marketplace).
		Typically, an application for a patent is prepared by a professional agent known as a patent attorney or patent agent, who files the application with a patent office.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/p/a/t/Patent.html (5042 words)

	Differences between US and European patents (in Patents @ iusmentis.com)
		Twenty European countries are currently member to the European Patent Convention, and it is possible to obtain patent protection in those countries through a single procedure before the European Patent Office.
		Patents under the EPC are granted by the European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich.
		A granted European patent under the EPC confers to its owner the same right as a national patent in those EPC countries he elected in the application.
	www.iusmentis.com /patents/uspto-epodiff (1800 words)

	Hepp Wenger Ryffel - FAQ Patents
		The member states of the European Patent Convention (EPC), for which a European patent can be obtained, are not identical with the member states of the EU.
		Once the European Patent Office (EPO) has granted and published a patent, it is open to attack by any party for a period of 9 months.
		Liechtenstein is a member of the EEA (European Economic Area), which means that the first permission in a member state of the EEA has to be considered for the term of extension.
	www.hepp.ch /faq.html (1289 words)

	2002
		Roland Grossenbacher reappointed to chair the Administrative Council of the European Patent OrganisationAt its 90th meeting, the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (EPO) re-elected Roland Grossenbacher to serve as its Chairman for a second term, beginning on 5 March 2003.
		Opposition hearing on genetic stem-cell patent at the European Patent OfficeA hearing in the opposition proceedings against the much discussed "Edinburgh" patent, related to aspects of stem cell technology starts at the European Patent Office (EPO) on 22 July.
		The governments of Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, and the German branch of Greenpeace, are among the parties that have lodged oppositions to the patent.
	www.european-patent-office.org /news/pressrel/2002_07_24_e.htm (718 words)

	European Patent Office - Annual Report
		Of the European patent applications filed in 2003, 44% came from the Organisation’s 27 member states, 30% from the USA and 16% from Japan.
		The Office completed 67 400 searches in its capacity as a PCT international searching authority (2002: 66 600), while the number of searches it carried out for European patent applications, 71 400, was considerably more than the previous year (2002: 58 200, +23%).
		As in previous years, the Office took the lead in IPC reform in terms of modernising it for IT purposes and adapting it to the needs of patent offices great and small.
	annual-report.european-patent-office.org /2003/business_report (2337 words)

	Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress -- THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, 1800-1992
		Moreover, in 1859 all U.S. copyright activities were centralized at the Patent Office, which meant that the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution no longer received the copies of books and pamphlets deposited for copyright that had been sent to each institution since 1846.
		This authority formally passed to the Office of the Librarian of Congress in the 1897 reorganization, for the Librarian explicitly was assigned sole responsibility for making the "rules and regulations for the government" of the Library, including the selection of its staff.
		Ronald Reagan and took the oath of office as the thirteenth Librarian of Congress on September 14, 1987.
	www.loc.gov /loc/legacy/loc.html (7947 words)

	Organising the Economic Majority in 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		During the hot phase in the Parliament, it will moreover allow us to refute propaganda of the big patent bullies (Nokia, Siemens etc) and to document in detail with accurate data how these patent bullies are harming industry and consumers with their aggressive patenting strategies and huge portfolios of broad and trivial monpolies.
		It needs to be more widely recognised that, whenever the subject of innovation policy or patents is raised, patent bullies and their lobbyists have no moral authority whatsoever to speak on this subject.
		In their public discourse, the promoters of the EU software patent directive proposal say they do not want patents on "pure software" but only on "computer-implemented inventions", by which they say they mean "washing machines and mobile phones".
	www.ffii.org /proj/plan/index.en.html (1780 words)

	Scientology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1977, as a result of an FBI raid, some senior people in the movement's Guardian's Office were convicted of stealing government documents.
		In 1965, the Australian government had banned Scientology, however in 1983, the High Court of Australia overturned the decision, contributing greatly to the scope of religious freedom in that country.
		It is covered under US Patent 3,290,589 "Device for Measuring and Indicating Changes in the Resistance of a Human Body", issued on 1966-DEC-6.
	www.chaplaincare.navy.mil /scientology.htm (3792 words)

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		As this article demonstrates, however, findings-based statutes generate unique costs in criminal prosecutions by depriving defendants of procedural protections designed to make it harder for the government to send an individual to jail than to regulate her conduct by civil means.
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