As the patent office for Europe, we support innovation, competitiveness and economic
growth across Europe through our commitment to high quality and efficient services
delivered under the European Patent Convention.
The provision of parallel quality assurance support for all tasks (incl. the tendering, planning and execution ) required for the entire process to build the new tower building in The Hague
The provision of market research services through the conduct of telephone surveys in four languages and the analysis of the results (User Satisfaction Surveys (USS) for patent search and examination services - 2012)
The provision of OCR Conversion and data extraction for documents with an input format (such as scanned image or PDF) into corresponding output documents (such as XML and PDF image with hidden text)
Although part of the EPO, the boards of appeal are independent from the Office in their decisions and are bound only by the European Patent Convention. The boards deal with appeals relating to the granting of and opposition to European patents.
