TY - BOOK AU - England, Paul AU - Sara Burghart AU - Judith Krens AU - François Pochart. AU - Paul England TI - A practitioner's guide to European patent law : for national practice and the Unified Patent Court SN - 9781509928606 U1 - 347.771(4) PY - 2019/// CY - New Delhi PB - Hart KW - Scope of Protection of Patent Claims KW - General Principles of National Law on the Doctrine of Equivalents KW - The Role of the Prosecution File KW - Issues Relating to Article 25(a) CPC 1989 KW - Products Made by an Infringing Process (Article 24(c) CPC 1989) KW - Second Medical Use Claim Infringement KW - Infringement of DNA Sequences KW - Indirect Infringement KW - FRAND Licence Objection KW - Patentability and Industrial Application KW - Methods of Treatment and Diagnostics – Article 53(c) EPC KW - General Principles of EPO and National Case Law KW - Interpreting Patent Claims and the Prior Art for Novelty Purposes KW - Novelty Over General Disclosures in the Art KW - General Approaches of EPO and National Law KW - Medicinal Products for Paediatric Use KW - Patent Ownership, Dealings and Employee Inventors KW - Rights of Co-owners KW - Compulsory Licences and Licences of Right KW - Patent Ownership, Dealings and Employee Inventors in the UPC KW - The Brussels Regulation KW - Cross-border Validity Actions KW - Cross-border Infringement Actions KW - Cross-border Declarations of Non-infringement KW - The Impact of Brexit KW - Brexit and Supplementary Protection Certificates KW - Patent laws and legislation -- Europe KW - European Patent Convention -- (2000 November 29) KW - Unified Patent Court KW - Patent laws and legislation -- Great Britain KW - International and municipal law -- Great Britain KW - International and municipal law KW - Patent laws and legislation KW - Great Britain KW - Europe N1 - Written by a team of lawyers with long-standing experience in patent litigation in Europe, this book is a comprehensive and practical guide to European patent law, highlighting the areas of consistency and difference between the most influential European patent law jurisdictions: the European Patent Office (EPO), England & Wales, France, Germany and the Netherlands. It is frequently the case that the decisions and approaches of these courts are cited by European patent lawyers of all jurisdictions when submitting arguments in their own national courts. The book is therefore intended to provide a guide to patent lawyers acting in the national European courts today. The book also looks to the future, by addressing all the areas of patent law for which the proposed Unified Patent Court (UPC) will need to establish a common approach. Uniquely, the book addresses European patent law by subject matter area, assessing the key national and EPO approaches together rather than in nation-by-nation chapters; and provides an outline in each chapter of the common ground between the national approaches, as a guide for the possible application of European patent law in the UPC ER -