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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

The European Patent Organisation (sometimes abbreviated EPOrg in order to distinguish it from the European Patent Office, one of the two organs of the...

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

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...

The European Patent Convention (EPC), the multilateral treaty instituting the legal system according to which European patents are granted, contains provisions...

German patent law is mainly governed by the Patents Act (German: Patentgesetz) and the European Patent Convention (EPC). A patent covering Germany can...

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

"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...

Office (EPO) and Moldova were authorized by the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation. The validation agreement with Moldova took effect...

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...

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...

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...

In the European Economic Area (European Union member countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway), a supplementary protection certificate (SPC) is a sui...

the filing of divisional applications is possible at least as long as the parent patent applications are pending. Since 2013, the European Patent Office...

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...

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

The Official Journal of the European Union (the OJEU) is the official gazette of record for the European Union (EU). It is published every working day...

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...