News vom Europäischen Patentamt
JPO and the EPO agree on cooperation in the field of machine translation06.02.2012: The Commissioner of the Japan Patent Office (JPO), Yoshiyuki Iwai, and the President of the European Patent Office (EPO), Benoît Battistelli, have signed an agreement which will provide users of the patent system with better machine translations of patents from Japanese into English and then into German and French.
Patent thickets, patent fees and patent quality: Advisory Board sets priorities for investigations24.01.2012: The role and structure of fees, the importance of patent quality and challenges to the functioning of the patent system from overlapping sets of patent rights, so-called patent thickets: these are the issues to be addressed by the Economic and Scientific Advisory Board of the European Patent Office.
Patent filings ? new record in 201117.01.2012: The EPO received 243 000 applications, 3% up on the 2010 record figure of 237 500. It granted 62 115 patents, 7% more than in 2010.
EPO sets up Economic and Scientific Advisory Board13.01.2012: Made up of internationally recognised experts with a global perspective and an emphasis on Europe, the board will advise the EPO on economic and social studies.
The significance of the European Inventor Award19.12.2011: Hear what a winner and a nominee have to say about the lasting value of the EPO's awards.
European Inventor films win three Master Class awards15.12.2011: The jury at this year's Corporate Media Awards praised the European Patent Office for its fifteen films on the European Inventor Award 2011, which were "first-rate films of the highest quality, a prime example of successful communication between specialists and the general public".
Taking users' views on board15.12.2011: EPO launches a new web-based consultation mechanism for proposed legal changes.
EPO and Chinese patent office strengthen co-operation01.12.2011: Meeting in South-West China for their 5th Heads of Office Conference, EPO President Benoît Battistelli, and the Commissioner of the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO), Tian Lipu, engaged in in-depth discussions in how to enhance their co-operation, and signed a work programme.
EPO and SIPO sign agreement on Chinese-English machine translation for patents29.11.2011: The EPO and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China at their annual bilateral co-operation meeting held in Chongqing signed an agreement which will have a striking impact for the improvement of the global patent system and the dissemination of technological information in the world.
Conference debates standards and patents25.11.2011: "Structured co-operation between the two systems is needed", the EPO's Wim van der Eijk said in his keynote speech in Brussels yesterday.
