May I stress that this is an option inventors have, they can go either for a national patent or for a European patent or for a Community patent.

It's a broad patent.

I'll give you a patent

After all, there is the patent in its entirety, a summary and the claims.

He has a UK patent.

Amendments to Annex 20 A

What's your rank?

N.p., n.d.

Rahmatullah Safi.

Title General.

I'm only exaggerating a little bit. It's a broad patent.

Once again, we have been left in no doubt on that score.

Needless to say, we endorse a Community patent.

The European patent is not to be confused with the Community patent.

I've resigned my commission.

I then received my second patent and this is a big one.

Mr President, European Patent No EP 69 53 51 has been a great shock to us. It amounts to deliberately awarding a patent for the breeding of human beings.

The patent office generally has responsibility for the grant of patents, with infringement being the remit of national courts.

Nobody on a lower level would dare to say a word contradicting those plans, even if it was the fate of the Aral Sea.

Similarly, a CPVR cannot coexist with a patent.

There is no other way of keeping and maintaining a Community patent.

What is the timetable for the introduction of a common EC patent?

Mario Cardullo's device, patented on January 23, 1973, was the first true ancestor of modern RFID, as it was a passive radio transponder with memory.

The average cost of European patents is three times the cost of an average Japanese patent and five times the cost of an average American patent.

It's my design. Did you steal a key to the Patent Office?

Fourthly, the Community patent.

The result is there for everyone to see.

Reeves filed for a French patent in 1938, and his US patent was granted in 1943.

A patent is a blueprint for how to make an invention.

A European patent is in the offing, and that is a good thing.

My final point concerns the lack of a Community patent.

We look at our own failure to decide upon a Community patent again that is a barrier to trade, but the solution there is in our own hands.

Red fleshed peaches are rich in anthocyanins.

Resigning your commission?

But what about your commission here?

What's your rank?

I'm a private, noclass dogface.

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (Paris Act, 1971)

The logical conclusion is therefore to create a Community patent.

Finally, I gather that it is proposed that software might be patented.

We have a legal basis in the form of the European Patent Convention.

The Commission continues to believe in a user friendly system where applicants can obtain a European patent and a Community patent in one go from the European Patent Office.

One junior European officer described a raid to punish a village that had protested.

One of the major problems with patent law is that, in the case that when you are sued by a patent troll, the burden of proof that you did not infringe on the patent is actually on the defendant, which means you have to prove that you do not infringe on the patent they're suing you on.

The present system for filing patent applications obliges the applicant to file a patent application separately in each Member State, which inevitably results in an undesirable fragmentation of the European market.