Press releases

• 13.7.2010
  "Essentially biological processes" under the microscope

  Anhörung der Großen Beschwerdekammer des Europäischen Patentamts zu den Fällen „Brokkoli und Tomate“ am 20. und 21. Juli 2010

• 1.7.2010
  Benoît Battistelli takes over as President of the European Patent Office

  Benoît Battistelli took up office today as President of the European Patent Office (EPO). A French national, he succeeds Alison Brimelow of the UK, who has headed the EPO since July 2007.

• 12.5.2010
  EBoA confirms EPO approach to computer programs

  Today the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO handed down its opinion on referral G 3/08, taking the opportunity to set out and confirm the approach of the EPO regarding the patentability of computer programs under the European Patent Convention (EPC).

• 30.4.2010
  Albania becomes 37th member state of the EPO

  Albania's parliament has approved the country's accession to the European Patent Convention and Albania will become a member of the European Patent Organisation on 1 May.

• 28.4.2010
  Winners of the European Inventor Award 2010 honoured in Madrid: pioneers in waste product reuse, laser scanners, carbon molecules, fuel cells and GPS systems

  Bioplastics, football-shaped molecules, GPS technology, hydrogen fuels cells and three-dimensional scanning systems - the fields covered by the winners of the European Inventor Award 2010 range from ecology and nuclear physics to information systems and satellite-based navigation. The European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Commission today honoured the five prizewinners from Germany, Switzerland, the USA and Canada at a gala ceremony in Madrid under the presidency of their Royal Highnesses Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia of Asturias.

• 27.4.2010
  Fewer European patent applications filed in 2009

  The number of European patent applications filed last year fell for the first time in 20 years.

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