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ItalianoThe European Patent is a patent for an industrial invention and is valid in the Member States of the European Union and in the bordering countries that have signed the convention. The patent is obtained following a unified procedure of deposit, inspection and issue.
CTI translates industrial patents – particularly in the fields of electrical and mechanical engineering, pharmaceuticals and medicine – into Italian and many other languages including the official languages of the EPC (European Patent Convention), that is English, French and German.
EPO, the European Patent Office, is the executive department of the European Patent Organisation. It guarantees inventors a uniform procedure for the recognition of their industrial rights, granting protection of the patents in more than forty nations. The European Patent has a duration of twenty years from the date of presentation of the application.
The patenting procedure begins with the presentation of the application at one of the EPO bases (Munich, the Hague, Berlin, Vienna and Brussels) or at the national Patent Office of one of the countries participating in the Convention. The application must be written in one of the three official languages and the chosen language will be used throughout the entire granting process.
The application for a European Patent may be presented independently of the fact of a pre-existing national patent or within 12 months of the date of presentation of the relevant application for a national patent with the opportunity of claiming priority rights for the latter.
