EPO
currently used in 40 countries, including China, Canada, Brazil and Australia as well as European countries.
In 2010 when Battistelli was first elected as president, he told WIPR he was keen to improve relations between the member states, the organisation itself and the Administrative Council.
“I think we have progressed on that level— relations between EPO and member states are excellent,” he says.
“We have developed a ‘corporation roadmap’ which is a much more flexible, user-driven and less bureaucratic way of communicating. We now have a yearly meeting where we evaluate the results of our cooperation with member states, and the feedback we received from the last meeting, in Reykjavik, Iceland, was extremely positive.”
Aside from issues surrounding Europe, Battistelli indicated he was keen to improve the working
relationship and communication the EPO has with countries outside of European borders.
“We have progressed a lot from a technical point of view on international harmonisation—for instance developing a patent search engine called Epoque which allows examiners to interrogate the EPO’s internal databases for patent searching. It is
“We have developed a classification system— cooperative patent classification (CPC)—with the US Patent and Trademark Office, to harmonise classification systems. In six months it has become a world standard and will be used also by China, Korea and Russia. We also have the patent translate service which offers translation of patents into more than 15 languages. Te aim to have 32 languages by the end of 2014.”
Despite describing his first three years as enjoyable, Battistelli remains coy on his future.
“I was elected for five years and have already completed three. Legally it is possible for me to serve another term but this question will come in 2014 and not before,” he says.
“Going forward I would like the EPO to continue to be the first office in the world in terms of quality, and to develop solid foundations for its future including streamlined legal processes, highly qualified andw highly motivated staff. I am concentrating on fulfilling this mandate and not the next one.”
OUR 125TH ANNIVERSARY, A GOOD MOMENT TO CONTEMPLATE THE FUTURE
Lately, the future of innovation has been discussed at length in the media. Serious attention is paid to the significance of Intellectual Property. Some say protecting ideas, designs and trademarks interferes with innovation.
We believe otherwise. Daily practice tells us IP has a crucial role in the future of innovation. No company will invest in ideas that can be copied unpunished.
As one of the most prominent IP firms in Europe, we like to take the lead in these discussions. During our jubilee year, we would like to give advocates and opponents the opportunity to share their ideas about the future of protected innovations. To be even more prepared for it. And to continue to protect and enrich our clients’ innovations, ideas and trademarks for yet another 125 years. For more information, please visit our website
www.nlo.nl/en
www.worldipreview.com
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