• EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect

    http://www.epo.org/news-issues/news/2018/20180525.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. 25 May 2018 Today the European Union GDPR enters into force with the aim of ensuring a high level of data protection. The EPO has always been committed to ensuring the highest level... Continue reading

     
  • EPO-OMPIC: a strategic partnership in support of technological and industrial development

    http://www.epo.org/news-issues/news/2018/20180509.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. EPO President Benoît Battistelli met Morocco’s Minister for Industry, Investment, Trade and the Digital Economy, Moulay Hafid Elalamy, in Rabat.

     
  • Europe’s patent information centres share experience in Ljubljana

    http://www.epo.org/news-issues/news/2018/20180504.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. Some 200 representatives from the 36 countries gathered in Ljubljana this week at the EPO’s 2018 PATLIB conference to discuss how best to support companies and inventors through their patent information services.

     
  • United Kingdom ratifies Unified Patent Court Agreement

    http://www.epo.org/news-issues/news/2018/20180426.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. The United Kingdom has announced today that it has deposited the instruments of ratification of the Agreement relating to the Unified Patent Court (UPCA). This now brings the total number of ratifications to... Continue reading

     
  • Paying tribute to 15 outstanding inventors: European Inventor Award 2018 finalists announced

    http://www.epo.org/news-issues/news/2018/20180424.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. The 15 finalists for the European Inventor Award 2018, announced today by the EPO, have all made significant contributions to advancing technology, generating economic value and creating employment in Europe and throughout the... Continue reading

     
  • EPO and AIPPI discuss strategic objectives

    http://www.epo.org/news-issues/news/2018/20180420.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. High-level representatives and experts from the EPO, led by President Benoît Battistelli, met with the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) Bureau headed by its President Hao Ma at the... Continue reading

     
  • Boards of Appeal Annual report 2017 has been published

    http://www.epo.org/news-issues/news/2018/20180418.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. The first Annual report of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office since the introduction of a comprehensive set of reforms has been published.

     
  • European Parliament event on SMEs and patents

    http://www.epo.org/news-issues/news/2018/20180416b.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. EPO presents case studies highlighting patents as springboard for SME success

     
  • 40 years of professional representation before the EPO

    http://www.epo.org/news-issues/news/2018/20180416a.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. EPO President Benoît Battistelli joined Francis Leyder, President of the Institute of Professional Representatives before the EPO (epi) and Christian Cardona, the Maltese Minister for Economy, Investment and Small Businesses, to celebrate the... Continue reading

     
  • EPO fee reduction takes effect as of 1 April 2018

    http://www.epo.org/news-issues/news/2018/20180404.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. The European Patent Office announces that fee reductions for patent applications entered into force on 1 April 2018. The measures will lower a number of costs in the patent application and examination process,... Continue reading