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Technical Board submits questions in the "Broccoli" patent case 10 Jul 2013 | 03:00 am
The Technical Board of Appeal in the proceedings T 83/05 concerning the so-called "Broccoli" patent has decided to refer further questions of law to the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO (EBoA).
A new building for the EPO in The Hague 27 Jun 2013 | 03:00 am
The EPO announced today that a consortium of four companies belonging to the Group TBI, one of the largest construction, mechanical and electrical services companies in the Netherlands, in co-operatio...
Six new languages added to Patent Translate 26 Jun 2013 | 03:00 am
In a move to further improve multilingual access to information contained in patent documents, the EPO today made another set of European languages available in its free machine translation service Pa...
The EPO and Morocco strengthen their partnership on patents 20 Jun 2013 | 03:00 am
EPO President Benoît Battistelli and the Director-General of the Moroccan Industrial and Commercial Property Office (OMPIC), Adil Elmaliki, signed a set of co-operation agreements to strengthen the pa...
Unitary patent in the spotlight in talks with German Justice Minister 18 Jun 2013 | 03:00 am
EPO President Battistelli met with German Federal Minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger at the EPO headquarters in Munich today to discuss developments in the European patent system, ...
Climate protection - everyone can do their bit! The European Patent Office hosts consumer organisation's info exhibition 17 Jun 2013 | 03:00 am
Making climate protection part of our daily lives is actually really easy and can even be rewarding - so goes the key message of the exhibition mounted by Bavaria's consumer organisation under the mot...
European Patent Network gathered in Iceland to foster cooperation about innovation in Europe 14 Jun 2013 | 03:00 am
The EPO, the member states of the European Patent Organisation and the OHIM in its observer capacity met in Reykjavik on 11/12 June to discuss how to bring co-operation forward in order to improve the...
EPO and IEEE Standards Association announce renewed co-operation 11 Jun 2013 | 03:00 am
The agreement confirms the commitment of the two organisations to work together to better serve industry worldwide, and strengthens the EPO's wider strategy in connection with standards.
Prizes offered for innovative satellite technologies 10 Jun 2013 | 03:00 am
EPO sponsors prize in the European Satellite Navigation Competition
Heads of world’s five largest IP offices meet in Silicon Valley 7 Jun 2013 | 03:00 am
The IP5 offices renewed their commitment to developing the "Global Dossier", a system to simplify the viewing and management of applications filed in the IP5 offices. They also agreed to adopt the Glo...
