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41Community patent — The Community patent, also known as the European Community Patent or EC patent and sometimes abbreviated as COMPAT, European Commission, Internal Market, [http://ec.europa.eu/internal market/smn/smn42/docs/patents en.pdf Stakeholders debate… …
42Grant procedure before the European Patent Office — Graph of European patent applications filed and granted between 1998 and 2007. Note that the average time from filing to grant in 2007 was 43.7 months (3.6 years) The grant procedure before the European Patent Office (EPO) is an ex parte,… …
43European Patent Convention — European patent law …
44History of patent law — The history of patents and patent laws is generally considered to have started in Italy with a Venetian Statute of 1474 which was issued by the Republic of Venice. [ Helmut Schippel: Die Anfänge des Erfinderschutzes in Venedig, in: Uta Lindgren… …
45Land patent — A land patent is evidence of right, title, and/or interest to a of land, usually granted by a central, federal, or state government) to an individual or private company. In the original 13 American Colonies, a proprietor would grant land patents …
46United States Patent and Trademark Office — The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO or USPTO) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that issues patents to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual… …
47European patent law — covers a wide range of legislations including national patent laws, the Strasbourg Convention of 1963, the European Patent Convention of 1973, and a number of European Union directives and regulations. Patents having effect in European states may …
48Open patent — The open patent movement seeks to build a portfolio of patented inventions that can freely be distributed under a copyleft like license. These works could be used as is, or improved, in which case the patent improvement would have to be re… …
49Biological patent — A biological patent is a patent relating to an invention or discovery in biology.HistoryThe 1970’s marked the first time when scientists patented methods on their biotechnological inventions with recombinant DNA. It wasn’t until 1980 that patents …
50Coalition for Patent Fairness — The Coalition for Patent Fairness (CPF) is an ad hoc organization of companies who are lobbying for reforms to the US patent system. In general they believe that the United States Patent and Trademark Office is too prone to grant overly broad… …
