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European Patent Convention

Autor: Alexandru Cristian Strenc

Número de Páginas: 174

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this monograph provides a survey and analysis of the rules concerning intellectual property law in the European Patent Convention (EPC), following generally the structure of the legal provisions, with a special focus on the patentability and patenting procedure. The monograph addresses not only the Convention’s core business, but also the work of its coordinating and implementing bodies, the European Patent Organization (EPOrg) and the European Patent Office (EPO). The concise presentation and interpretation of all relevant texts includes those considered “additional” but which, according to article 164(1) EPC, are in fact integral parts of the Convention – the Implementing Regulation and the Protocols on the Interpretation of Article 69 EPC and on Centralisation, Recognition, Privileges and Immunities, and the Staff Complement. Particular attention is paid throughout to issues arising from the relationship between the EPC and other relevant international and European laws and to recent developments and trends, especially in connection with the unitary patent system. The monograph also includes...

Exclusions from Patentability

Autor: Sigrid Sterckx , Julian Cockbain

Número de Páginas: 375

This book provides the first comprehensive study of what cannot be patented and what should not be patentable in Europe.

Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office

Autor: European Patent Office

Decisions of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office

Autor: European Patent Office

Número de Páginas: 326

Convention on the Grant of European Patents

Autor: European Patent Organisation

Número de Páginas: 50

The European Patent Convention (EPC) is a multilateral treaty instituting the European Patent Organisation and providing an autonomous legal system according to which European patents are granted. A European patent is not a unitary right, but a group of essentially independent nationally enforceable, nationally revocable patents.

How to Get a European Patent

Autor: European Patent Office

Número de Páginas: 102

Visser's Annotated European Patent Convention 2018 Edition

Autor: Derk Visser

Número de Páginas: 1603

The book Visser’s Annotated European Patent Convention is a commentary on the European Patent Convention and a bestseller in European patent law. Each year a new, updated edition of the book is published and available in paperback form. The 2018 edition of this preeminent work – the only regularly updated authoritative article-by-article commentary in English on the European Patent Convention (EPC), its implementing regulations, and associated case law – provides the complete text of the 2000 Convention annotated with commentary and expert guidance on the interpretation of each paragraph. Since its first edition in 1994 it has provided the European patent community with the necessary insights to practice successfully before the European Patent Office. The EPO recommends the Visser’s Annotated European Patent Convention as the first book in its list of non-EPO/WIPO literature to be used for the preparation of the European qualifying examination. In addition to a thorough updating of developments, new material in this edition includes the following: • Important amendments in the latest edition of the Guidelines that entered into force 1 November 2018; • Announced...

US Patent Law for European Patent Professionals

Autor: A. Nickel

Número de Páginas: 369

Far more than a revised update, this new edition of a well-received guide to US patent law is twice as valuable to European patent practitioners as the previous edition. It is virtually a brand new book. The author, drawing on her recent years at a US firm, has augmented each chapter with practical information – including lines of argumentation to overcome obviousness rejections – and added new chapters, as well as much more detail on petitions and appeals, post-grant proceedings, and litigation. The new edition tells European practitioners not just about the framework of US patent law, but how it is applied. No other such book exists. With an overview of options at each stage of US patent prosecution and enforcement – with particular emphasis on its differences from the EPO system – the new edition details the available courses of action for all the procedural scenarios a European patent attorney is likely to encounter. The coverage is loaded with practical guidance on such aspects of US patent law and procedure as the following: · drafting applications and filing them at the US Patent Office; · applying provisions of the America Invents Act of 2011; · possible...

Visser's Annotated European Patent Convention 2019 Edition

Autor: Derk Visser

Número de Páginas: 1357

The book Visser’s Annotated European Patent Convention is a commentary on the European Patent Convention and a bestseller in European patent law. Each year a new, updated edition of the book is published and available in paperback form. The 2019 edition of this preeminent work – the only regularly updated authoritative article-by-article commentary in English on the European Patent Convention (EPC), its implementing regulations, and associated case law – provides the complete text of the 2000 Convention annotated with commentary and expert guidance on the interpretation of each paragraph. Since its first edition in 1994 it has provided the European patent community with the necessary insights to practice successfully before the European Patent Office. The EPO recommends the Visser’s Annotated European Patent Convention as the first book in its list of non-EPO/WIPO literature to be used for the preparation of the European qualifying examination. In addition to a thorough updating of developments, new material in this edition includes the following: New Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal; New EPO Guidelines that enter into force on 01.11.2019; The references to...

Proceedings Before the European Patent Office

Autor: Marcus O. Müller , Cees A.m. Mulder

Número de Páginas: 193

The second edition of this acclaimed and widely-used book has been thoroughly updated in light of, among others, the revised Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal, which entered into force in January 2020. It provides the first detailed understanding of these new rules and their influence on opposition and appeal proceedings. Dealing with all stages of proceedings before the European Patent Office, this book provides fresh insight into how best to act at each stage to successfully complete a case in opposition and appeal, detailing how opposition divisions and boards of appeal approach the cases before them.

The Granting of European Patents

Autor: M. Van Empel

Número de Páginas: 460

Updated version of a thesis on the convention on the grant of European patents of 5 October 1973 - comments on the development of international patent law, with reference to precedents of national level legislation, and includes the full text of the international agreement. Bibliography pp. 419 to 425.

Concise European Patent Law

Autor: Richard Hacon , Jochen Pagenberg

Número de Páginas: 769

In our technological society patent law plays a central role as an incentive for the development and marketing of new technologies in many fields of business. The number of patent applications continues to grow considerably every year. International and European conventions and other instruments have been implemented in order to simplify the application for and enforcement of patents and which also govern the scope of protection afforded by a patent in Europe. Others are being planned. This second edition of Concise European Patent Law aims to offer the reader a rapid understanding of all the provisions of patent law in force in Europe that have been enacted at the European and international levels. This volume takes the form of an article-by-article commentary on the European Patent Convention and the relevant European Community legislation and international treaties. It is intended to provide the reader with a short and straightforward explanation of the principles of law to be drawn from each provision, with references to the most important case law. Editors and authors are prominent specialists (both academics and practitioners) in the field of international and European...

The New European Patent

Autor: Alfredo Ilardi

Número de Páginas: 240

On 17 December 2012, following a complex negotiation which lasted 12 years, the European Parliament adopted Regulations (EU) 1257/2012 and 1260/2012 and the text of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPC Agreement). These instruments institute the 'European patent with unitary effect', the first unified system for the protection of inventions within the European Union. The two Regulations will be applicable after the entry into force of the UPC Agreement, which was signed on 19 February 2013 by 24 Member States of the European Union. This book traces the evolution of the idea behind the institution of the European patent with unitary effect, including a comparative analysis of the existing parallel regional and international procedures for the protection of inventions. It presents a synthesis of the different phases of the negotiations which led to the adoption of the first unitary patent system within the European Union. In addition it examines the provisions of the two Regulations, of the UPC Agreement and of the jurisdictional system under Brussels I Regulation. Finally, the Appendix contains the text of Regulations (EU) 1257 and 1260/2012 and of the UPC Agreement.

Visser's Annotated European Patent Convention 2021 Edition

Autor: Laurence Lai , Derk Visser

Número de Páginas: 1300

The book, Visser’s Annotated European Patent Convention, is a commentary on the European Patent Convention and a bestseller in European patent law. The 2021 edition of this preeminent work – the only regularly updated authoritative article-by-article commentary in English on the European Patent Convention (EPC), its implementing regulations, and associated case law provides the complete text of the law annotated with commentary and expert guidance on the interpretation of each paragraph. Since its first edition in 1994 it has provided the European patent community with the necessary insights to practice successfully before the European Patent Office. The EPO recommends the Visser’s Annotated European Patent Convention as the first book in its list of non-EPO/WIPO literature to be used for the preparation of the European qualifying examination. In addition to a thorough updating of developments, new material in the 2021 edition includes the following: Amended EPO Guidelines that entered into force on 01.03.2021 Consolidated discussion of procedures relating to oral proceedings held by video conference Commentary on recent amendments to the implementing regulations Recent...

European Patent Law

Autor: Stefan Luginbuehl

Número de Páginas: 361

The book is explaining in detail the current discussion regarding the unification of European patent law. It explains the current national legal practices in Europe, describing the legal and factual issues and the different approaches to achieve unification. The book manages to show the complex situation and the different opinions from the beginning of the discussion in a clear and comprehensive manner without requiring previous knowledge of the reader and is therefore to be recommended for everyone interested. Jochen Pagenberg, LL.M. Harvard, President EPLAW, Germany and Thomas Schachl, LL.M., Attorney-at-law, Germany In his detailed study, Stefan Luginbuehl critically examines the latest efforts to establish a common European and EU patent litigation system and suggests possible alternatives to such a system. Due to the lack of a European patent court, both the EPO and national judges interpret European patents and European patent law. This results in diverging interpretation across Europe and costly litigation for patent holders. Stefan Luginbuehl s proposals to promote the goal of a uniform interpretation of patent law and ease the difficulties are timely and highly...

Visser's Annotated European Patent Convention 2023 Edition

Autor: Peter De Lange , Andrew Rudge , Nina Ferara

Número de Páginas: 1506

The book, Visser’s Annotated European Patent Convention, is a commentary on the European Patent Convention and a bestseller in European patent law. The 2023 edition of this preeminent work – the only regularly updated authoritative article-by-article commentary in English on the European Patent Convention (EPC), its implementing regulations, and associated case law provides the complete text of the law annotated with commentary and expert guidance on the interpretation of each paragraph. Since its first edition in 1994 it has provided the European patent community with the necessary insights to practice successfully before the European Patent Office. The EPO recommends the Visser’s Annotated European Patent Convention as the first book in its list of non-EPO/WIPO literature to be used for the preparation of the European qualifying examination. In addition to a thorough updating of developments, new material in the 2023 edition includes the following: Amended EPO Guidelines that entered into force on 01.03.2023 Commentary on recent amendments to the Implementing Regulations Recent decisions of the boards of appeal Rules relating to Unitary Patent Protection and Rules relating ...

European Patent Law

Autor: Ian Muir , Matthias Brandi-dohrn , Stephan Gruber

Número de Páginas: 392

This text provides an analysis of European patent law and procedure (including practice under the PCT). It should be useful for experienced European patent practitioners, practitioners outside Europe seeking a guide to the European patent system and trainee patent attorneys.

The European Patent Convention for Foreign Practitioners

Autor: Michele Baccelli , Martin Bachelin , Thorsten Bausch , Stephan Disser , Veit-peter Frank , Morten Garberg , Matthias Kindler , David Lethem , Declan Mulhern , James M. Ogle , Joachim Renken , Georg Siegert , Jan-hendrik Spilgies , Andreas Stefferl , Christiane Stein-dräger , Klemens Stratmann , Leonard L. Werner-jones , Matthias Wolf , Rainer E. Zangs

Número de Páginas: 199

Managing patent portfolios and securing patent protection for global interests is multifaceted and requires local expertise. For 125 years, Hoffmann Eitle has been known for experience and quality in the protection of intellectual property in Europe. This handbook provides targeted guidance for practitioners interested in patent protection in Europe, including in-depth commentaries on basic patentability requirements, patent prosecution at the EPO, post-grant proceedings in Europe, and an introduction to the expected European Patent with Unitary Effect (EP-UE) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC).

The European Patent System

Autor: Gerald Paterson

Número de Páginas: 894

European Patent Office Reports

Autor: Peter Mclean Colley

Número de Páginas: 608

European Patent Office Reports

The European Patent Convention and Proceedings Before the European Patent Office (EPC 2000)

Autor: Tobias Bremi

Número de Páginas: 288

Preface --Notes on the Use of this Book --Literature --Internet Links --Abbreviations --General Introduction --General Procedural Matters and Principles --The Filing of a European Patent Application --Examination of the European Patent Application --Limitation/Revocation Proceedings --Opposition proceedings --Appeal Proceedings --Answers to the Questions --Annexes.

Visser's Annotated European Patent Convention 2024 Edition

Autor: Peter De Lange , Andrew Rudge , Nina Ferara

Número de Páginas: 1559

The book, Visser’s Annotated European Patent Convention, is a commentary on the European Patent Convention and a bestseller in European patent law. The 2024 edition of this preeminent work – the only regularly updated authoritative article-by-article commentary in English on the European Patent Convention (EPC), its implementing regulations, and associated case law provides the complete text of the law annotated with commentary and expert guidance on the interpretation of each paragraph. Since its first edition in 1994 it has provided the European patent community with the necessary insights to practice successfully before the European Patent Office. The EPO recommends the Visser’s Annotated European Patent Convention as the first book in its list of non-EPO/WIPO literature to be used for the preparation of the European qualifying examination. In addition to a thorough updating of developments, new material in the 2024 edition includes the following: • Amendments to the Implementing Regulations that come into force on 01.04.2024, and comments on them. • Amended EPO Guidelines that entered into force on 01.03.2024 • Recent decisions of the boards of appeal The 2024...

Visser's Annotated European Patent Convention 2022 Edition

Autor: Peter De Lange , Andrew Rudge

Número de Páginas: 1345

The book, Visser’s Annotated European Patent Convention, is a commentary on the European Patent Convention and a bestseller in European patent law. The 2022 edition of this preeminent work – the only regularly updated authoritative article-by-article commentary in English on the European Patent Convention (EPC), its implementing regulations, and associated case law provides the complete text of the law annotated with commentary and expert guidance on the interpretation of each paragraph. Since its first edition in 1994 it has provided the European patent community with the necessary insights to practice successfully before the European Patent Office. The EPO recommends the Visser’s Annotated European Patent Convention as the first book in its list of non-EPO/WIPO literature to be used for the preparation of the European qualifying examination. In addition to a thorough updating of developments, new material in the 2022 edition includes the following: Amended EPO Guidelines that entered into force on 01.03.2022 Consolidated discussion of procedures relating to oral proceedings held by videoconference Commentary on recent amendments to the Implementing Regulations Recent...

A Practitioner's Guide to European Patent Law

Autor: Paul England

Número de Páginas: 659

This new edition is a comprehensive and practical guide to European patent law – a 'ius commune'. The book highlights the areas of consistency and difference between the most influential European patent law jurisdictions: the European Patent Office, England and Wales, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. The book also draws insights from further afield, with contributions from other, very active, patent jurisdictions, including Italy, Sweden, Denmark, and Switzerland. Uniquely, the book addresses European patent law by subject matter area, assessing the key national and EPO approaches together rather than nation by nation. Each chapter outlines the common ground between the national approaches and provides a guide for the possible application of European patent law in national courts and the UPC in the future. In addition to featuring content on new countries, the second edition includes new chapters dedicated to the substantive aspects of FRAND, declarations, and evidence. There is also an expanded commentary on construction, including common terms used in patent claims. A must-read for anyone working in the field of European patent law.

Patent information and documentation in Western Europe

Autor: Brenda M. Rimmer , Commission Of The European Communities

Número de Páginas: 220

At head of title: Commission of the European Communiites.

Pharmaceutical Patents in Europe

Autor: Bengt Domeij

Número de Páginas: 365

The pharmaceutical industry and patent legislation are inextricably linked. Pharmaceutical companies could not exist without some guarantee that they can recoup the cost of developing a new product. European patent law offers this opportunity, as it allows companies to exclude competition for a specific product for a fixed time scale. In Pharmaceutical Patents in Europe the current legal patent situation is examined by a detailed analysis of case law from the European Patent Office (EPO), the international body created with the signing of the European Patent Convention (EPC). Aspects of European patent law not primarily regulated in the EPC, for example Supplementary Protection Certificates and infringement matters, are examined in the setting provided by EC law and domestic laws of European states. This book is written for the reader who understands the main characteristics of patent law and is looking for a practitioner's text on the European pharmaceutical patent law scene. Moreover, the author's remarks can help all readers to look at the field with fresh eyes.

Case Law of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office

Autor: Europäisches Patentamt

Número de Páginas: 812

European Patent Applications

Autor: Günter Gall

Número de Páginas: 252

National law relating to the EPC

Autor: European Patent Office

Número de Páginas: 233

Intellectual Property Law: European Patent Convention

Autor: Alexandru Cristian Strenc

Número de Páginas: 272

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this monograph provides a survey and analysis of the rules concerning intellectual property rights in European Patent Convention. It covers every type of intellectual property right in depth – copyright and neighbouring rights, patents, utility models, trademarks, trade names, industrial designs, plant variety protection, chip protection, trade secrets, and confidential information. Particular attention is paid throughout to recent developments and trends. The analysis approaches each right in terms of its sources in law and in legislation, and proceeds to such legal issues as subject matter of protection, conditions of protection, ownership, transfer of rights, licences, scope of exclusive rights, limitations, exemptions, duration of protection, infringement, available remedies, and overlapping with other intellectual property rights. The book provides a clear overview of intellectual property legislation and policy, and at the same time offers practical guidance on which sound preliminary decisions may be based. Lawyers representing parties with interests in European Patent Conventionwill welcome this...

The Unitary EU Patent System

Autor: Justine Pila , Christopher Wadlow

Número de Páginas: 324

The purpose of this book is to explore the key substantive, methodological, and institutional issues raised by the proposed unitary EU patent system contained in EU Regulations 1257/2012 and 1260/2012 and the Unified Patent Court Agreement 2013. The originality of this work lies in its individual contributions and uniquely broad approach, taking six different (historical, constitutional, international, competition, institutional and forward-looking) perspectives on the proposed patent system. This means that the book offers a multi-authored and all round legal appraisal of the proposed unitary system from experts in patent law, EU constitutional law, private international law, and competition law, as well as leading figures from the worlds of legal practice, the bench, and the European Patent Office. The unitary patent system raises issues of foundational importance in the fields of patent and intellectual property law, EU law and legal harmonization, which it is the purpose of the book to engage with. This is a work which will enjoy wide and enduring interest among academics, policy makers and decision makers/practitioners working in patent law, intellectual property law, legal...

European Intellectual Property Law

Autor: Terence Prime

Número de Páginas: 295

This title was first published in 2000: European Intellectual Property is a survey and discussion of the impact of the economic principles of the European Community, upon the legal regime for the protection of intellectual property rights within the Community and the laws of its Member States. Beginning with a discussion of the issues arising from the treaty itself and the efforts of both the European Court of Justice and the European Commission through the liberalization of licensing procedures to meet these specific issues, the survey goes on to consider the attempts to achieve harmonization of national laws in the fields of trade marks, patents, industrial design and the wider efforts to create Community wide intellectual property rights.

Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office

Scenarios for the Future

Autor: Shirin Elahi

Número de Páginas: 128

This compendium is the culmination of an in-depth three year research project which considered how the European Patent Organisation (EPO) might rediscover and renew the basic principles underpinning it abd its inherent purpose. Over 100 formal interviews were conducted with leading experts, and from these the EPO dervied a set of scenarios for the possible future of patenting and intellectual property. These scenarios will be used by the EPO to address possible future challanges and opportunities.

European Software Directives and European Software Patents

Autor: Alexandru Cristian Strenc

Número de Páginas: 152

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this monograph provides a survey and analysis of the rules concerning intellectual property rights in European Software Directives and European Software Patents. It covers every type of intellectual property right in depth – copyright and neighbouring rights, patents, utility models, trademarks, trade names, industrial designs, plant variety protection, chip protection, trade secrets, and confidential information. Particular attention is paid throughout to recent developments and trends. The analysis approaches each right in terms of its sources in law and in legislation, and proceeds to such legal issues as subject matter of protection, conditions of protection, ownership, transfer of rights, licences, scope of exclusive rights, limitations, exemptions, duration of protection, infringement, available remedies, and overlapping with other intellectual property rights. The book provides a clear overview of intellectual property legislation and policy, and at the same time offers practical guidance on which sound preliminary decisions may be based. Lawyers representing parties with interests in European...

European Patent Materials and Index

Autor: Volker Vossius , Corinna Vossius , Tilman Vossius

Número de Páginas: 288

This is a practical guide to trade mark procedure and litigation in all 15 member states in the European Union, and to procedure within the Community Trade Mark Office (OHIM) in Alicante. Its easy-to-use format, with standard templates, allows quick access to procedure within each member state