European Patent Convention

The Convention established the European Patent Organization (EPO) , which has administrative and financial autonomy to implement the procedure for granting a European patent . The States Parties to the Convention, represented by Governments, are motivated by the desire to strengthen cooperation in the field of the protection of inventions between European countries and striving to ensure the provision of such protection in the contracting states using a single patent granting procedure and the creation of certain standard rules governing granted patents and concluded the Convention for this purpose.

In accordance with the EPC, the functioning of the patent system is ensured by the European Patent Organization (EPO) , whose bodies are the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Administrative Council that controls its work.

Headquarters

The EPO's headquarters are located in Munich, but the organization still has an Agency in The Hague . This Agency is the former International Patent Institute, absorbed by the Organization during its creation in accordance with the Protocol on Centralization, which was added to the YPC.

Convention languages

The YPC was compiled in English, French and German in a single copy and was deposited in the archives of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is believed that all three texts are equally authentic .

Denunciation of the Convention

Any State Party may denounce this Convention at any time. Notification of denunciation shall be addressed to the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany. Denunciation shall take effect one year after the submission of such notification.

YPC exists today in the 1973 edition, which includes revisions from 1991 and 2000. The adoption of amendments to the YPC was first implemented at the Conference in 1991. This Conference discussed the possibility of amending just one article, article 63, which relates to the duration of a European patent. The amended text of this article entered into force on July 4, 1997. The Second Conference, on making amendments to the YPC, was held on November 20-29, 2000, in Munich. As a result, many articles have undergone changes, mainly in the direction of simplifying the edition and transferring all procedural issues to the Executive Instructions. You can view the text of the EPC on the website of the European Patent Office (English) .

At present, YPC unites 38 member countries.

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Hungary, Croatia, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Lithuania , Latvia (from 1 July 2005 ^[1] ), Monaco, Macedonia, Malta, Holland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, San Marino, Turkey. Expansion countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina , Montenegro . ^[2]

Since the start of the work, the EPO has published over one million patent applications. In recent years, applications have reached 160,000 per year. The number of employees in the EPO is 6,000. The number of units of patent documentation reached 32,000,000 ^[3] .

• European Patent Organization
• European Patent Office
• Patent

• European Patent Convention: [Coll. doc.] / [Per. and entry. Art. V.I. Eremenko, p. 3-24]. - [2nd ed.]. - M.: VNIIIPI, 1998 .-- 232 p.
• Skordamalya V. Law of Intellectual Power ЄС. - Kyiv: ІМВ КНУ ім. Taras Shevchenko, 2005 .-- 156 p. - (Right ЄC). - 110 copies.
• V.S. Drob'yazko, R.V. Drob'yazko. The right of intellectual power. - Kyiv: YurіnkomInter, 2004. - 512 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 966-667-170-0 .

1. ↑ Plagiarism Insurance - DELFI
2. ↑ List of member countries
3. ↑ Skordamalya V. The right of intellectual power ЄС. Navalny pos_bnik. - K .: ІМВ КНУ ім. Taras Shevchenko, 2005 .-- 156 p.

• Official website of the European Patent Office (English) . Archived on August 27, 2011.
• Prospectus "Obtaining a European Patent"