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BLOG@IP::JURPatent Attorney Axel H Horns' Blog on Intellectual Property Law.
Monday, January 23, 2006Some Confusion on "Community Patents".Since long I have been reporting in this Blog on EU Community Patents, i.e. an approach undertaken on the political stage by the EU Commission to establish a new kind of patent in Europe that is not, like the conventional "European Patent" as granted by the European Patent Office, enforced as a bundle of national patents. This new "EU Community Patent" is planned to be a single homogenous exclusion right covering the entire territory of the European Union, i.e. there would be no "designations" of single Member States as currently provided by the European Patent Convention (EPC).Now, a group around the US-PTO has come up with an approach  to augment the patent examination process with elements of social software. It can now be seen that those people (mostly Americans) also get used to call their project Community Patent.Hence, some confusion seems to be un-avoidable. Look out on what is acutally meant when reference is made to some "Community Patent". Technorati Tags: Patents, EU Community Patent, Peer-to-Peer Patent Project, US-PTO, European Patent Office
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