The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office issued opinion G 3/19 (Pepper) today and concluded that plants and animals exclusively obtained by essentially biological processes are not patentable.

The new building for the Boards of Appeal Unit of the EPO in Haar, Munich, was officially inaugurated yesterday.

The EPO is closely monitoring its systems after a critical vulnerability in the commonly used Java software “Log4j” emerged at the end of last week.

The Trilateral Offices held their 39th annual meeting virtually today.

EPO staff and management express their sympathy for the victims of the earthquake in Türkiye and Syria.

The Unitary Patent system: A game-changer for innovation in Europe

From mission impossible to commercial success

EPO staff and management express their sympathy for the victims

Our annual Season’s Greetings message to stakeholders tells a story of a child innovating their way out of a very winter problem 

Das EPA hat sich mit TEDxYouth@München zusammengeschlossen und einen Dialog mit jungen Meinungsführern angestoßen.