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Twelve candidates from nine countries have been short listed for the European Inventor Award 2010. The winners will be announced in Madrid on 28 April.

Zu dieser Entscheidung kam die zuständige Einspruchsabteilung des Europäischen Patentamts (EPA) nach Anhörung der beteiligten Parteien in der mündlichen Verhandlung im Einspruchsverfahren.

EPO President Alison Brimelow gave the 2010 Francis Gurry Intellectual Property Lecture at the Melbourne Law School.

Eine Einspruchsabteilung des Europäischen Patentamts hat am Mittwoch und Donnerstag über die Aufrechterhaltung eines Patents im Bereich der Landwirtschaft zu befinden, dessen Erteilung von verschiedenen Organisationen, darunter Greenpeace Deutschland, angefochten worden ist.

Qualifizierte Stimmenmehrheit für den französischen Bewerber.

The negotiations are part of the European Patent Office's support to the EU's Neighbourhood Policy.

The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation will once again vote to elect the next President of the European Patent Office (EPO).

ECAP III, a European Commission-funded initiative aimed at strengthening IPRs in ten Asian countries, builds on the success of two earlier projects.

Der Rat beschloss, das Verfahren mit denselben Bewerbern auf einer außerordentlichen Ratstagung am 1. März 2010 fortzusetzen.

The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO will hold public oral proceedings in cases G2/07 ("Broccoli") and G1/08 ("Tomatoes") on 20 and 21 July 2010 in Munich.

At an extraordinary meeting in Munich on 2/3 February, delegations of the 36 member states of the European Patent Organisation will vote to elect the next EPO President

Sie wird in allen Mitgliedstaaten der EPO sowie in den USA durchgeführt, und ihre Ergebnisse sollen Wege aufzeigen, wie wir die Zugänglichkeit und Verständlichkeit von Patentinformationen verbessern können.

The first findings of the "Patents and clean energy" study conducted by the EPO with UNEP and the ICTSD were presented at a side event at the Climate Change Summit.

The Russian patent office, the European Commission and the EPO have agreed on next steps in the implementation of a project aimed at aligning the Russian and EU patent systems

With their decision of 4 December in the Competitiveness Council, the EU Ministers have paved the way forward towards a supranational patent system in Europe.

The basic concept underlying the future EU patent system is that the EU accedes to the European Patent Convention and that the EPO grants EU patents.

The new website will provide information on co-operation among the world's five biggest patent offices.

The EU Council agreed on a general approach to the draft Regulation on the EU patent.

The first findings of a study on patenting and climate change will be presented at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference on 18 December.

The agreement confirms the two organisations' commitment to work together on patents and standards to better serve industry in Europe and beyond