European Patent Office

Neste’s Inventors Honored with European Inventor Award for Transforming Waste into Renewable Solutions

(IN BRIEF) Neste, a global leader in sustainable aviation fuel and renewable solutions, has announced that its inventors have been…

10 months ago

Siemens ranked #5 for number of patents by the European Patent Office; number 1 in Germany

Siemens takes fifth place in European Patent Office's patent ranking Twentyinventions per working day in fiscal 2021 Strong growth in…

2 years ago

Nanto Cleantech Inc victorious in BYK-Altana patent opposition lawsuit

Nanto Cleantech prevails in European Patent opposition proceedings against BYK-Chemie GmbH (represented by the Altana IP department), confirming its position…

5 years ago

Royal DSM maintains key patent for its Dyneema® Force Multiplier Technology after a second challenge by Honeywell Inc.

Geleen, the Netherlands, 31-Jan-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Royal DSM, a global science-based company active in health, nutrition and materials, today…

6 years ago

Philips is the world’s largest patent applicant for the second consecutive year

Philips filed 2,568 patent applications* at the EPO during 2016 Company maintains number-one position in three strategic patent filing areas:…

7 years ago

ABB registered more patent applications with the European Patent Office than any other Swiss-based company in 2014

In 2014, ABB filed more patent applications in Europe than any other company in Switzerland, for the second consecutive year…

9 years ago

European Patent Office signs Patent Prosecution Highway pilot programmes with Canada, Mexico and Singapore to launch accelerated treatment of patent applications

New pilot programmes to start in 2015 Aimed at faster processing of patent applications Offices can exploit each other's work…

10 years ago

EPO partners with ASEAN Member States Intellectual Property Offices over establishing institutional framework for structured co-operation on patents

Siem Reap, Cambodia, 3-3-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The nine Heads of ASEAN Member States Intellectual Property Offices (AMS-IPOs) and EPO President…

10 years ago

First-ever EU-wide study of the impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on the European economy

Brussels, Belgium, 15-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Commission today welcomed the publication of the first-ever EU-wide study of the impact of…

11 years ago

Group TBI led construction consortium and two leading architectural firms selected to design and construct The European Patent Office’s new building in Hague, Netherlands

Munich/Rijswijk, 27-6-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — The European Patent Office (EPO) announced today that a consortium of four companies belonging to the…

11 years ago

European Patent Office improves multilingual access to patent documents by adding six new languages

Munich, 27-6-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — In a move to further improve multilingual access to information contained in patent documents, the European…

11 years ago

German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, EPO President Benoît Battistelli discussed the future unitary patent

Munich, 24-6-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — German Federal Minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger met with European Patent Office (EPO) President Benoît Battistelli…

11 years ago

European Patent Office and Moroccan Industrial and Commercial Property Office signed set of co-operation agreements over improving patent systems

Munich, 20-6-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — EPO President Benoît Battistelli and the Director-General of the Moroccan Industrial and Commercial Property Office (OMPIC),…

11 years ago

H. Lundbeck A/S disappointed and strongly disagrees with EC decision and intends to appeal

The European Commission has decided that Lundbeck's agreements concluded with four generic competitors concerning citalopram violated competition law The decision…

11 years ago