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Enlarged Board of Appeal decides that under specific circumstances oral proceedings by VICO before the boards of appeal are compatible with the EPC ir

L'utilisation des ressources d'apprentissage de l'OEB progresse dans les universités européennes

The first national patent application has been filed using new Front Office e-filing software, thanks to intense collaboration between the EPO and sev

Join us for a night to remember, as around 70 leading cultural institutions open their doors for one of the city’s major cultural highlights.

The EPO has recently launched, on 13 October, the pilot for the new Cooperation Search system, which will be used by over 100 examiners in 8 national

The 17th Annual Meeting for the European Patent Network took place in Lisbon from 26 to 27 May, marking the first face-to-face gathering since the shi

EPO President António Campinos and Commissioner of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) Shen Changyu discussed recent developments and future co-operation between the offices at their annual bilateral meeting today.

Today, the German Parliament adopted with the necessary two-thirds majority the ratification bill on the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA).

The heads of the European Patent Office (EPO), Japan Patent Office (JPO) and United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), known as the Trilateral offices, held their 38th annual meeting on 8 December 2020, hosted by the EPO.