Buchbesprechung / Book rezension: „European Patents“ by Lise Dybdahl

• Lise Dybdahl, Head of the Legal Division, EPO
  Translated into English by Peter Hards
  
• „European Patents„
  Heymanns Intellectual Property
  
• 2001, XIII, 254 Pages, hardcover, EUR 68,- excl. transport costs
  
• Carl Heymanns Verlag KG, Köln
  
  
• ISBN-Nr.: 3-452-24653-0

[Siehe auch die deutsche Ausgabe]

This book provides an overall survey of the European patent system, focusing on the various stages in the grant and appeal procedures. On the basis of current practice at the European Patent Office (EPO), an explanation is provided of all the key provisions for granting European patents; filing, search, examination, grant, opposition and appeals. The reader is also given an overview of the EPO’s structure.

In addition to the references to decisions of the EPO boards of appeal and Enlarged Board of Appeal, the footnotes contain numerous cross-references to the UK Patents Act 1977. This will make the European patent system easier to understand for those already familiar with UK law, which has itself largely been brought into line with the European Patent Convention (EPC).

Contents:

• The European patent system – background and main features
  
• The European Patent Organisation
  
• Patentability
  
• Novelty
  
• Inventive step
  
• Date of filing and priority
  
• Conditions to be met by an European patent application
  
• Amending an European patent application or an European patent
  
• Right to an European patent, transfer, registration of licences
  
• Register of European Patents and patent information
  
• Procedures before the EPO
  
• Language arrangements and translations
  
• The PCT and Euro-PCT applications
  
• Rights conferred by an European patent

TT/06.04.2002

bezogen werden, aber auch auf herkömmlichem Wege, also