Exemption under Rule 141(2) EPC （日本からの出願は免除）

日本からの出願はサーチ結果提出が免除になるようですね。

よかった、よかった。


Notice from the European Patent Office (12/9)


3. The Japan Patent Office, the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office have agreed to provide the EPO in electronic form with the search results covered by Rule 141(1) EPC. Therefore, the President of the EPO has now decided that the EPO will also include the above-mentioned copy in the file of a European patent application, thus exempting the applicant from filing the copy himself, where the priority of a first filing made in Japan, the United Kingdom or the United States of America is claimed

I.V.がついにおおやけに活動を始めました

I.V.がついに公で動き始めましたね。(271) (PatentlyO)

日本で、まず最初に狙われるのはF社かな。I.V.日本法人の社長は

F社と因縁がありそうですからね。。。