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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the EPC

http://www.epo.org/news-events/news/2023/20230116a.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. This year, the European Patent Office (EPO) celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the European patent system.
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User consultation on the implementation of oral proceedings by videoconference (VICO) before the Boards of Appeal

http://www.epo.org/news-events/news/2023/20230116.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. Article 15a of the Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal
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EPO and Peru IP Office make their PPH fast-track programme permanent

http://www.epo.org/news-events/news/2023/09012023.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. Following a successful 3-year pilot, the Patent Prosecution Highway programme between the EPO and the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Intellectual Property Protection (Peru) (INDECOPI) became permanent on 2 January... Continue reading
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Hydrogen patents shift towards clean technologies with Europe and Japan in the lead

http://www.epo.org/news-events/news/2023/20230110.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. Latest EPO-IEA report is the most comprehensive and up-to-date study of global trends in hydrogen technologies
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Unitary Patent: Forms for requesting transitional measures now available

http://www.epo.org/news-events/news/2022/20221219a.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. Unitary Patent transition period starts 1 January 2023, and forms for requesting the measures offered may be submitted as of that day
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Republic of Moldova invited to accede to European Patent Convention

http://www.epo.org/news-events/news/2022/20221216a.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation invites the Republic of Moldova to accede to the European Patent Convention (EPC).
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Season’s Greetings from the EPO

http://www.epo.org/news-events/news/2022/20221216.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. Our annual Season’s Greetings message to stakeholders tells a story of a child innovating their way out of a very winter problem
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Candidates sit first-ever European patent administration certification

http://www.epo.org/news-events/news/2022/20221213.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. Inaugural examination draws over 500 candidates from 33 countries
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Learning path for patent administrators

http://www.epo.org/news-events/news/2022/20221212b.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. A new comprehensive learning resource from the European Patent Academy to support the European patent administration certification (EPAC).
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Administrative Council re-elects EPO Vice-Presidents

http://www.epo.org/news-events/news/2022/20221213a.html Content reproduced from the Website of the European Patent Office as permitted by their terms of use. The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation has reappointed all three of the EPO’s Vice-Presidents.