What is the object of the EPC 2000?
The European Patent Convention of 1973 was comprehensively revised at a Diplomatic Conference in November 2000. The new version of the Convention – abbreviated as “EPC 2000” – and the new Implementing Regulations adopted by the Administrative Council in December 2006 contain the legal provisions which will in future govern the European patent grant procedure and European patents. The texts of the EPC 2000 and the Implementing Regulations were published in OJ EPO 2007, Special edition No. 1, and are also available on the European Patent Office website.
