The European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW, formerly EPLA) is a
professional association
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of
patent
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lawyer
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s, with a registered office in
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
,
Belgium
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. Its claimed object is "the promotion of efficient and fair handling of
patent litigation
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in
Europe
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and the strengthening of ties between well established patent lawyers in Europe."
In a conference organized by the EPLAW in October 2005 in
Venice
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,
Italy
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, a panel of judges adopted a resolution calling for a single European patent court. In a second conference, called the Second Venice Forum and jointly organized by the EPLAW and the
European Patent Office
The European Patent Office (EPO) is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the other being the Administrative Council. The EPO acts as executive body for the organisation in 2006 in
San Servolo
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, an island in the
Venetian Lagoon, in Italy, a panel of judges approved a Resolution adopting guidelines for the Rules of Procedure of the European Patent Court to be set under the
European Patent Litigation Agreement
The draft European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA), or formally the Draft Agreement on the establishment of a European patent litigation system, was a proposed patent law agreement aimed at creating an "optional protocol to the European Patent ...
(EPLA), which has not entered into force.
Since 2001, the EPLAW also took a series of resolutions relating to
European patent law
European patent law covers a range of legislations including national patent laws, the Strasbourg Convention of 1963, the European Patent Convention of 1973, and a number of European Union directives and regulations. For some states in Eastern ...
.
[See appendices of EPLAW web site]
''Response of the European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW) on the Questionnaire "On the patent system in Europe" published by the European Commission on 16.01.06''
See also
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Intellectual property organization
Intellectual property organizations are organizations that are focused on copyrights, trademarks, patents, or other intellectual property law concepts. This includes international intergovernmental organizations that foster governmental cooperatio ...
References
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Bar associations of Europe
Intellectual property organizations
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