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Monday, January 23, 2006

Some 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".

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