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...
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European patent law covers a range of legislations including national patent laws, the Strasbourg Convention of 1963, the European Patent Convention of...
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The European patent with unitary effect, also known as the unitary patent, is a European patent which benefits from unitary effect in the participating...
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by the EPO is not a single or unitary European Union patent or uniformly recognised Europe-wide patent, but a bundle of national patents. Patents granted...
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proposal for a European Union (EU) directive aiming to harmonise national patent laws and practices concerning the granting of patents for computer-implemented...
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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...
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directive in the field of patent law, made under the internal market provisions of the Treaty of Rome. It was intended to harmonise the laws of Member States...
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European Union law is a system of rules operating within the member states of the European Union (EU). Since the founding of the European Coal and Steel...
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Europe-wide patent may refer to: Unitary patent, a European Union project to create a unitary patent in most EU member states European patents, granted...
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The European Patent Organisation (sometimes abbreviated EPOrg in order to distinguish it from the European Patent Office, one of the two organs of the...
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litigation system, was a proposed patent law agreement aimed at creating an "optional protocol to the European Patent Convention (EPC) which would commit...
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The patentability of software, computer programs and computer-implemented inventions under the European Patent Convention (EPC) is the extent to which...
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The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is a common supranational patent court of 18 member states of the European Union, which opened on 1 June 2023. It hears...
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granting European patents. The Strasbourg Convention has had a significant impact on the EPC, on national patent laws across Europe, on the Patent Cooperation...
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German patent law is mainly governed by the Patents Act (German: Patentgesetz) and the European Patent Convention (EPC). A patent covering Germany can...
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European Union's attempt to harmonize national patent laws by the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and Council on the patentability of computer-implemented...
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Patent law in the Netherlands, or simply Dutch patent law, is mainly governed by the Kingdom Patents Act (Dutch: Rijksoctrooiwet) and the European Patent...
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The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are party to the EU's founding treaties, and thereby subject to the...
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The European Patent Convention (EPC), the multilateral treaty instituting the legal system according to which European patents are granted, contains provisions...
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years either starting from the filing date of the patent application or from the date of grant of the patent. In most patent laws, annuities or maintenance...
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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...
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Supplementary protection certificate (category Patent law of the European Union)
In the European Economic Area (European Union member countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway), a supplementary protection certificate (SPC) is a sui...
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procedure intended to allow any European patent to be centrally opposed. European patents granted by the EPO under the European Patent Convention (EPC) may be...
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The copyright law of the European Union is the copyright law applicable within the European Union. Copyright law is largely harmonized in the Union, although...
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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...
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procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing patent applications and oppositions to granted patents. The term "patent attorney" is used differently...
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The general principles of European Union law are general principles of law which are applied by the European Court of Justice and the national courts...
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Brussels Regime (redirect from European Execution Treaty)
member states of the European Union (EU) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). It has detailed rules assigning jurisdiction for the dispute to...
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– Patent law of the European Union – German patent law – Unitary patent (proposed) – Japanese patent law – Patent law of the People's Republic of China...
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Enforcement Directive (redirect from Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights)
"IPRED") is a European Union directive in the field of intellectual property law, made under the Single Market provisions of the Treaty of Rome. The directive...
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