A European patent application may be filed with the European Patent Office. If the law of a Contracting State permits so, and subject to the dispositions regarding Divisional Patent Applications, applications may be also filed with the central industrial property office or other competent authority of that State, which shall have the same effect as if more…
The European Patent Convention does not contain any disposition related with a Compulsory License Regime, which means that it is not possible to issue a Compulsory License under the EPC regime. Therefore, each country shall regulate the Compulsory Licenses Regime on a national level. In that regard, the European Commission answered to a series of more…
Rights: Under the European Patent Convention, the grant of a Patent confers to the owner the following rights: Term of Protection: 20 years from the date of filing of the application. Contracting States have the right to extend the term of a European Patent, or to grant corresponding protection which follows immediately on expiry of more…
A European patent application may be filed by any natural or legal person, or any body equivalent to a legal person by virtue of the law governing it. It may also be filed either by joint applicants or by two or more applicants designating different Contracting States. The right to a European patent shall belong more…
Pretty much as in the Andean Community Regime, under the European Patent Convention Patents shall be granted for any inventions, in all fields of technology, provided that they are new, involve an inventive step and are susceptible of industrial application. The differences, however, rely on the way that each of those systems define and limit the different more…
