In the meeting of the Committee on Patent Law, the Office and the representatives of the 38 EPO Contracting States, together with the European Commission as observer, had a first...
In 2018, businesses and inventors continued to file large numbers of patent applications at the EPO, with the five top filing regions - Europe, the US, Japan, China and the...
The number of patent applications filed with the European Patent Office (EPO) grew by 4.6% last year, reaching a new high of 174 317 (2017: 166 594). The EPO's Annual...
As a follow-up to its "Patenting Blockchain" conference, the European Patent Office (EPO) has published a conference report entitled "Talking about a new revolution: blockchain" to provide insight into the...
A study published today, 6 November 2018, by the European Patent Office (EPO) reveals that innovation in self-driving vehicles (SDV) is accelerating fast and finds that patent protection strategies in...
Forty years ago, on 20th of December the EPO published its first European patent application, EP 0 000 001. Filed by the European Atomic Energy Community, the application related to...
