European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy set out his plan for a single approach to patents across the European Union on Thursday, ahead of an Oct. 12 vote on the matter in the European Parliament, ... Thirty-nine contracting nations of the European Patent Convention—a separate treaty more inclusive than EU membership—have organized a unified European Patent Office (the EPO).

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The European Patent ... European Patent Office upholds JA Solar patent ‘as valid’ in opposition oral proceeding Wilhelm Eger of Maiwald Intellectual Property examines how the Pemetrexed case has influenced European approaches to patent infringement under the doctrine of equivalency and how numbers and ... The European Patent Office (EPO) granted the Oncomouse patent to DuPont in 1992, despite opposition by animal rights groups who charged it was cruel to engineer an animal to die a painful death. The ...