The new European patent

On 17 December 2012, following a complex negotiation which lasted 12 years, the European Parliament adopted Regulations (EU) 1257/2012 and 1260/2012 and the text of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPC Agreement). These instruments institute the 'European patent with unitary effect', the first unified system for the protection of inventions within the European Union. The two Regulations will be applicable after the entry into force of the UPC Agreement, which was signed on 19 February 2013 by 24 Member States of the European Union. This book traces the evolution of the idea behind the.

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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Author's Note; 1. Innovation and the Industrial Property Protection Systems in the European Union; I. The Genesis of Innovation; II. Patent Protection as an Incentive to Innovation; III. The Systems of Industrial Property Protection within the European Union: The Community Trademark and the Community Industrial Design; IV. The Lack of a Unitary Patent System within the EU; 2. Towards the Establishment of an Integrated European Patent System for the Protection of Inventions.

I. First Attempts at the International Harmonisation of National Patent Legislations and ProceduresII. The 1962 Draft Convention for a European Patent Law -- The 1969 Memorandum on the Setting up of a European System for the Grant of Patents -- The European Patent Convention and the Community Patent Convention; III. Parallel International Developments: The PCT; IV. 1978 -- 94: Towards a Global Protection of Intellectual Property Rights. The Project for the Revision of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and the TRIPS Agreement.

v. New Attempts at the Establishment of the Community Patent System3. The Firs…