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European Patent Organisation

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The Office

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• Official holidays 2008
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• The Research Fund
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• Annual reports
  • Annual report 2006
  • Annual report 2005
  • Annual report 2004
• Statistics
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• History

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EPO events

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• East meets West 2008
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• European Patent Forum and Inventor of the Year 2008
  • European Patent Forum
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  • Hotels
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  • Contact
• PATLIB2008
  • Programme
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  • Exhibition
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• Patent Statistics for Decision Makers 2008
  • Registration
  • Venue, hotels, transport
  • Call for papers
• Patent Information Conference 2008
• Archive
  • 2007
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  • 2003
  • 2002

Publications

• General information
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  • The Research Fund of the European Patent Organisation
  • Financial statements
  • Facts and figures
• Official periodicals
  • Official Journal
  • European Patent Bulletin
• Procedure
  • Guide for applicants. Part 1
  • Guide for applicants, Part II
  • National law relating to the EPC
  • European Patent Convention, 12th edition
  • European Patent Convention, 13th edition
  • Ancillary Regulations to the EPC
  • Guidelines for Examination under the EPC 1973
  • Guidelines for Examination in the EPO
  • European National Patent Decisions Report
  • Directory of professional representatives
  • Case Law of the Boards of appeal
  • Modernising the European Patent System
  • European patents and the grant procedure
• EQE preparation
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• Patent information
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• User guides
  • Online Filing - Quick Reference Guide
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  • WebRegMT - Quick Reference Guide
  • An introduction to the database of ideas
  • Searching using classifications
• Seminar and conference proceedings
  • Quality in the European patent system
  • Nanotechnology and Patenting
  • Economic aspects of patent protection
  • Innovation support
  • Patents, Designs, Trademarks, Denominations of origin
  • Managing IPR in Knowledge-based Society
  • European Patent System
  • IP issues for government officials
  • PCT procedure: recent changes
  • Computer-related and business model inventions
  • IP and Knowledge Management
  • Patenting in China
  • PCT and patenting in China
  • The Industrial Property Business
• Studies
  • EPOscript: Genetic Engineering - The new challenge
  • EPOscript: Utilisation of patent protection in Europe
  • EPOscript: Enabling biotechnological inventions in Europe and the United States
  • EPOscript: Principles of Procedure in European Patent Law
  • EPOscript: Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights and Patent Litigation
  • Due process for European patenting
  • Small and medium enterprise case studies
  • Scenarios for the future

Press

• Press releases
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• Background information
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• Workshops
• Contact

Jobs

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• Vacancies in other areas
• Working at the EPO
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• Conditions and benefits
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• Applying for a job
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• Internships
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Tenders

• International open tenders
  • Archive
• Geographically-limited open tenders
  • Archive

European Patent Network

• Utilisation Pilot Project
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• Special search programme
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  • Romanian State Office for Inventions and Trademarks
  • Swedish Patent and Registration Office
  • Slovak Industrial Property Office
  • Turkish Patent Institute