earlier European patent applications. A divisional application, sometimes called European divisional application, is a new patent application which is...

European patent is used to refer to patents granted under the European Patent Convention. However, a European patent is not a unitary right, but a group...

A divisional patent application, also called divisional application or simply divisional, is a type of patent application that contains subject-matter...

The patentability of software, computer programs and computer-implemented inventions under the European Patent Convention (EPC) is the extent to which...

A patent application is a request pending at a patent office for the grant of a patent for an invention described in the patent specification and a set...

Contracting States. Within the European Patent Office, examiners are notably in charge of studying European patent applications, filed by applicants, to...

The European patent with unitary effect, also known as the unitary patent, is a European patent which benefits from unitary effect in the participating...

Patent Convention – Disclosure of the invention under the European Patent Convention – Divisional applications under the European Patent Convention –...

The European Patent Convention (EPC), the multilateral treaty instituting the legal system according to which European patents are granted, contains provisions...

Under the European Patent Convention (EPC), European patents shall be granted for inventions which inter alia involve an inventive step. The central legal...