The present state of the patent system in the European Union : as compared with the situation in the United States of America and Japan / Joseph Straus.

The present state of the patent system in the European Union : as compared with the situation in the United States of America and Japan / Joseph Straus.

xii, 63 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

9282695557
9789282695555

G 110 STR.P

Gift from the author; Recd 21/11/97; Contents : I. Introduction; II. The present overall "Design" of patent protection in the EU; III. The Community patent protection scheme and its deadlock : (i) The original rationale for community patents; (ii) Basic characteristics of the system under the ACP; (iii) Obvious deficiencies; (iv) Inherent deficiencies of the EPC; (v) EPC improvement proposals of the EPO; (vi) Reactions to the designed strategies; IV. The involvement of the European Union in patent law : (i) Regulation on a supplementary protection certificate; (ii) Proposal for a Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions; (iii) Green Paper on the protection of utility models in the internal market; (iv) Regulation on the application of Article 85 (3) of the Treaty of Rome to certain categories of technology transfer agreements; V. International developments; VI. Suggestions;.
Auf der Titelseite: European Commission, Directorate-General Telecommunications, Information Market and Exploitation of Research.

EUR ; 1704 EN.

Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1997.

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