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28.3.2023
Innovation stays strong: patent applications in Europe continue to grow in 2022

The European Patent Office (EPO) received 193 460 applications in 2022, an increase of 2.5% on the previous year and a new record.

 
27.3.2023
Easy access to EPO legal texts on any device

Your feedback will help us make further improvements

 
24.3.2023
10 years of Cooperative Patent Classification marked

President Campinos: CPC now the most powerful classification system in the world

 
23.3.2023
European qualifying examination 2023 completed

2 148 candidates of 58 nationalities participated in this year’s European qualifying examination (EQE).

 
22.3.2023
Digital transformation & Unitary Patent: users updated

Members of SACEPO Working Party on Rules discussed latest changes

 
20.3.2023
EPO-JETRO annual meeting

European Patent Office receives delegation from the Japan External Trade Organization

 
17.3.2023
Inspiring inventors – Elena García Armada

Meet the expert behind the first adaptable robotic exoskeleton for children

 
15.3.2023
EPO discusses digitalisation at eighth eSACEPO meeting

User representatives from Europe, China, Japan, Korea and the United States met online to exchange on digital transformation in the patent grant process and advances in online services.

 
8.3.2023
EPO commemorates International Women’s Day

Theme for 2023 puts spotlight on innovation and gender equality

 
7.3.2023
EPO and European Commission sign agreement on Unitary Patent

Working arrangement covers data sharing and cooperation activities

 
1.3.2023
Greece train crash

EPO staff and management express their sympathy for the victims

 
1.3.2023
Guidelines for Examination 2023 enter into force

The latest EPC and PCT-EPO Guidelines enter into force on 1 March 2023, with the public user consultation continuing until 4 April.

 
27.2.2023
EPO announces CodeFest winners

Outstanding solutions highlight the potential of machine learning for identifying sustainable innovation in the field of plastics.

 
27.2.2023
New Patent Filing Tool in Spain and Lithuania

First two countries implement filing tool

 
17.2.2023
The Unitary Patent is to become a reality

Germany has deposited its instrument of UPCA ratification.

 
13.2.2023
First training for all UPC appointed judges

Five days of intense sessions in Budapest.

 
10.2.2023
Second public consultation on the EPO Observatory

Share your input before 10 March and help steer the Observatory’s key topics, tools and activities.

 
9.2.2023
Pan-European Seal Young Professionals Programme expands network of partner universities

110th network member joins, as 9th edition of programme launches.

 
7.2.2023
Earthquake in Türkiye and Syria

EPO staff and management express their sympathy for the victims.

 
6.2.2023
CodeFest on Green Plastics: Finalists announced

The countdown begins to the online award ceremony on 23 February, when the winners will be revealed.

 
1.2.2023
Tell us your views on the latest EPC and PCT-EPO Guidelines

Users have until 4 April 2023 to provide their input on the Guidelines published today.

 
25.1.2023
Quantum computing technologies on the rise

New EPO study reveals strong increase in the number of inventions in the field of quantum computing.

 
24.1.2023
Patent grants up 10% at IP5 offices in 2021

The world’s five largest intellectual property offices publish their latest statistics report.

 
23.1.2023
Kids’ collaborative art competition

Opportunity for primary school children to express their dreams of a more sustainable world.

 
16.1.2023
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the EPC

This year, the European Patent Office (EPO) celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the European patent system.

 
12.1.2023
German Constitutional Court decision on EPO appeal system

The German Federal Constitutional Court has published a decision today confirming that the EPO’s appeal system provides independent and effective judicial relief, as required by the German constitution for courts of international organisations

 
10.1.2023
Hydrogen patents shift towards clean technologies with Europe and Japan in the lead

Latest EPO-IEA report is the most comprehensive and up-to-date study of global trends in hydrogen technologies

 
9.1.2023
EPO and Peru IP Office make their PPH fast-track programme permanent

Following a successful 3-year pilot, the Patent Prosecution Highway programme between the EPO and the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Intellectual Property Protection (Peru) (INDECOPI) became permanent on 2 January 2023.

 

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