Enforcement of Patents in Europe – Germany as an Example
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Neither the European Patent Convention (EPC) nor the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) have touched and influenced in any manner the way in which patents can be presently enforced in the member countries of the European Union (EU) and/or of EPC. This situation, however, would change dramatically if some kind of a Community Patent (CP) would be introduced, the fate of a draft EU Regulation for introducing such a CP being unclear at the moment, however. Discussions amongst a group of member countries of EPC, with the aim of creating a centralized enforcement system for EPC based patents, are making soft progress, however.
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