epoline® Annual Conference in Barcelona

epoline® Annual Conference in Barcelona

The European Patent Office sets worldwide
technical standards for patent professionals

Patent professionals from all over Europe will come together in Barcelona on 9-11th December at the second epoline® Annual Conference to learn about the latest developments in on-line patent management and information dissemination. epoline® is the European Patent Office's (EPO) service providing a wide range of electronic products and services for the intellectual property community.

The three-day conference, organised by the EPO, will show delegates how on-line is facilitating the access to the patent system both for professional users and the wider public. epoline® on-line patent filing process and management are making the European patent procedure more efficient, transparent and accessible, while setting new technical standards worldwide in that field.

The conference will consist of three parallel sessions: hands on training for both epoline® on-line patent management and esp@cenet® patent information conducted separately in English, French and German by experienced EPO tutors, seminars on the patent procedure and presentations on the theme "Cutting Edge Issues in Intellectual Property Today".

Representatives from industry and academia, as well as intellectual property specialists and successful private inventors will feature in the sessions. Key speakers will include Mr. Ingo Kober, President of the EPO, Mr. José López Calvo, Director General of the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office and Mr. John Bambridge, Director of the EPO's epoline® service, amongst others.

The conference will be of particular interest to patent attorneys, their administrative staff and others involved in the protection of Intellectual Property rights.

Contact:

Agatha Pavía
ISC
Rue d'Arlon, 39-41
B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
Tel.: +32 2 282 4004
Fax: +32 2 282 4001
agatha@isc-europe.com
http://www.isc-europe.com/epoline

Information about how to register for the conference can be found at:
http://www.epoline.org/events/barcelona/en/registration_en.pdf

Information for the press about how to register for the Press Conference
can be found at: http://www.isc-europe.com/epoline/register.html

Editor's note

EPO: The European Patent Office grants European patents for the contracting states to the European Patent Convention (EPC), which was signed in Munich on 5 October 1973 and entered into force on 7 October 1977. It is the executive body of the European Patent Organisation, an intergovernmental body set up under the EPC, whose members are the EPC contracting states. The activities of the EPO are supervised by the Organisation's Administrative Council, composed of delegates from the contracting states. See http://www.european-patent-office.org

epoline®: is the brand name given to the range of electronic products and services produced by the EPO for the intellectual property community. These products and services have been designed to provide a secure, integrated environment for electronic communication between the EPO, applicants, their representatives and the national patent offices of the contracting states to the EPC. Most significantly, it provides for on-line filing, fee payment and management of deposit accounts, file inspection, and Register enquiries. It offers major advantages over traditional ways of working by providing instant feedback in the forms of status information and immediate confirmation of communications and transactions, while reducing clerical work and paper handling costs, as well as increasing in public visibility of the patenting process and transparency of procedure. See http://www.epoline.org.

esp@cenet®: is the EPO's public worldwide patent information service on the Internet. It provides users with a readily accessible source of published patent information. It also aims to improve awareness at national and international level, in particular among small and medium-sized enterprises, of the kind of information that is accessible to the public. Moreover, as well as offering documents published by the EPO, this service provides access to patent documents published by patent offices around the world. Specifically, esp@cenet® offers access to: all patent documentation available to EPO examiners, recent patent applications (at least two years) from the EPO member states, EPO patent applications and PCT pamphlets from the World Intellectual Property Organisation. See http://www.european-patent-office.org/espacenet/info/index.htm.

EPO Member States: The following states are currently members of the European Patent Organisation: Austria; Hellenic Republic; Belgium; Ireland; Switzerland; Italy; Cyprus; Liechtenstein; Germany; Luxembourg; Denmark; Monaco; Spain; Netherlands; Finland; Portugal; France; Sweden; Turkey; United Kingdom; Republic of Bulgaria; Republic of Romania; Czech Republic; Slovenia; Republic of Estonia; Slovak Republic and Hungary.



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