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bartmans
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« Reply #1 on: 09-05-10 at 02:11 pm » |
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Grounds on which European patents can be revoked are exhaustively listed in Art. 138 EPC: (1) Subject to Article 139, a European patent may be revoked with effect for a Contracting State only on the grounds that: (a) the subject-matter of the European patent is not patentable under Articles 52 to 57; (b) the European patent does not disclose the invention in a manner sufficiently clear and complete for it to be carried out by a person skilled in the art; (c)the subject-matter of the European patent extends beyond the content of the application as filed or, if the patent was granted on a divisional application or on a new application filed under Article 61, beyond the content of the earlier application as filed; (d) the protection conferred by the European patent has been extended; or (e) the proprietor of the European patent is not entitled under Article 60, paragraph 1.
Unity has not been mentioned and thus forms no ground on which a patent can be revoked.
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