Übersetzung für "Patent in force" in Deutsch

A patentholder can keep his or her patent in force for up to 20 years.

First it shall be ascertained whether the main application or the main patent is still in force.

They needed to know if a particular patent was in force or dead.

Boehringer appealed this decision to the next EPO instance, which would have kept the contested patent in force until the appeal had been decided.

The Community Member States are signatories to the European Patent Convention, already in force, and the Convention on the Community Patent.

The mere possibility, however, that also customers from countries where the patent is in force would inform themselves on the allegedly infringing objects accounts for a far less (potential) relation to the home country than the accessibility of the internet.

Whereas the costs are generated in the period of processing the patent application from filing up to grant, future renewal fees on patents are received thereafter and spread over the years the patent is in maintained force.

Inventors entered for the award must have been granted at least one European patent for their invention by the European Patent Office, maintained in force in at least one EPO member state.

The application was, on the one hand, for a European patent for all the countries in respect of which the European Patent Convention was in force on the date of filing, and on the other, for a national patent in Denmark.

Even after expiry of the opposition period, a patent in force can be challenged by a revocation action brought before the Federal Patent Court.

If a product is marked with a patent number (and stating the respective country!) or simply by writing "patent", "patent protection" or "protected by a patent" a valid patent being in force on this product must exist. As far as the marking relates only to a patent application a product will only be allowed to be marked with the patent application number or by the words "patent application", if the application has been published and is therefore able to be verified by file inspection.

Even after expiry of the opposition period, a patent in force can be challenged by an action for the declaration of nullity brought before the Federal Patent Court.

In order to keep the EP patent into force in Belgium, the patent holder has to pay each year a renewal fee to OPRI (the maximal duration of an EP patent is 20 years from the date of filing of the EP patent application).

This new information, which is updated monthly, shows whether the yearly patent renewal fees have been paid for European patents in the national phase for all member states, making it easier to gain an overview of where a granted European patent is in force.

There was a major improvement to the legal status database in autumn, with the addition of substantial amounts of data on the payment of annual renewal fees for European patents in the national phase, an enhancement which will make it far easier to identify the countries in which a granted European patent is in force.

This diagram shows the demography of a portfolio; the chronological development of all of one company's patents and patent applications (either in force or pending) in DE, GB, FR, EP, US and CN in that year.

What are the limitations of patent mapping and patent statistics? Be aware that simply counting patents is often not enough, since the value of patents is so different from case to case - you need to assess the importance of the invention. Significant indicators include: patent family size, the length of time the patent is in force and citation information.

These are images "clipped" from the first pages of patent documents, which will be particularly useful for companies or commercial providers who want to bring together bibliographic data, abstract information and representative drawings. There was a major improvement to the legal status database in autumn, with the addition of substantial amounts of data on the payment of annual renewal fees for European patents in the national phase, an enhancement which will make it far easier to identify the countries in which a granted European patent is in force.

In total, in 2014 exactly 116,702 German patents were in force.

At the end of 2018, a total of 129,461 patents were in force.

In total there were exactly 129,511 German patents in force in 2016.

By the end of 2014, there were 104,000 patents in force in Switzerland.

Two thirds of patents in force in the European territories are American or Asian, not European.

The search report furthermore does not indicate whether the cited patents are still in force.

This also applies to all patents already in force on 1 July 1995.

Provided that the annual renewal fees are duly paid, patents remain in force for the maximum term.

However, such agreements qualify for the exemption referred to in paragraph 1 only for as long as the patents remain in force or to the extent that the know-how is identified and for as long as it remains secret and substantial whichever period is the longer.

The European Patent Office can be expected to grant each year 50 000 new Community patents which would, in view of a litigation rate of around 1 per 1 000 patents in force, increase the number of new proceedings at first instance by about 50 per year.

This assumption is based on an expected number of 100 000 patents granted by the European Patent office per year of which around 50 000 would designate the Community and an annual litigation rate of 1 in 1 000 patents in force.

An exception is the United States, where patents in force but filed prior to 8 June 1995 expire after the later of 17 years from the issue date or 20 years from the priority date.

The exemption of territorial protection is subject only to the general condition that the licensed patents or parallel patents are still in force in the protected territory and that the licensee manufactures the licensed product himself or has it manufactured by a connected undertaking or by a subcontractor.