Analysing 40 years of the EPC: What has it done for us?

August 31, 2013

In 1973, the signing of the European Patent Convention marked the birth of a period of unprecedented cooperation and change for patents in Europe. Forty years on, the next chapter in that story is about to begin with the launch of the EU unitary patent. James Nurton reports

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