Glossary

A - D

• Application date (filing date)
• Bundespatentgericht
• Compulsory appointment of a representative
• DEPATIS and DEPATISnet - German patent information system
• Dependent patent
• Design protection

E - H

• Employee inventions
• European Patent Convention (EPC)
• European Patent Office (EPO)
• European Patent Organisation
• Examination request (patent)
• Federal Patent Court (Bundespatentgericht)
• Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs

I - M

• Industrial property rights
• International Patent Classification (IPC)
• Invention
• Inventive step (inventiveness)
• Locarno Classification
• Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks

N - R

• Novelty
• Nullity
• OHIM
• Opposition
• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
• Patent
• Patent claims
• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
• Patent exploitation
• Patent family
• Patent infringement
• Prior art
• Priority
• Priority date
• Publication of a patent application
• Recognition acquired through use

S - Z

• Semiconductor rights
• Splitting off
• State of the art (prior art)
• Topographies - semiconductor rights
• Trade mark
• TRIPS Agreement
• Utility model
• WIPO

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