European Patent Institute
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The Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office or European Patent Institute (epi) is a professional association of European patent attorneys and an international non-governmental public law corporation. It was founded on October 21, 1977 by the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation. [1] All European patent attorneys, i.e. all persons entitled to act as professional representatives before the EPO (by virtue of either the European qualifying examination or the provisions of Article 163, paragraph 7 EPC), are members of the Institute. [1] [2]
The European Patent Institute publishes a quarterly journal, the epi Information. The current president of the European Patent Institute is Chris P. Mercer. [3]
[edit] See also
- Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI)
- International Patent Institute (IIB)
- Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law
- Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute
- AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law
[edit] References
- ^ a b Article 134(8)(b) of the European Patent Convention (EPC), signed at Munich, Germany on October 5, 1973.
- ^ Article 5(1) of the Regulation on the establishment of an institute of professional representatives before the European Patent Office, OJ 1997, 350 with corrections according to OJ 1997, 130, OJ 2002, 429 and OJ 2004, 361.
- ^ European Patent Institute web site, Board Members, retrieved on July 12, 2006.
[edit] External links
- Official web page
- epi Information
- Current issue
- Archive issues, since 1999
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