Note by the Chair of the Group B+ Sub-Group on Patent Harmonisation

Open Forum on the draft Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT)

It does not address elements of substantive patent law (for example, what is patentable).

It does not address elements of substantive patent law (for example what is patentable).

It does not address elements of substantive patent law (for example what is patentable).

Next step in the Tegernsee Process focusing on substantive patent law harmonization: broad user consultation

Without developing countries, there will be no Substantive Patent Law Treaty and no mutation of WIPO into a World Patent Organisation.

Next step in the Tegernsee Process focusing on substantive patent law harmonization: broad user consultation

The present report "Case law from the Contracting States to the EPC 2014-2016" focuses on issues of substantive patent law in Europe.

It outlines, in particular, national treatment, the right of priority, and a number of common rules in the field of substantive patent law.

Open Forum on the Draft Substantive Patent Law Treaty, March 1 to 3, 2006

Amendments 4 to 6 are proposing different alternatives to clarify some provisions of the EPC related to substantive patent law.

The only provisions of substantive patent law included in the regulation were those defining acts of infringement.

The chairman of the B+ Group then reported on recent developments in the area of Substantive Patent Law Harmonisation.

This was followed by a debriefing from the chairman of the B+ Group John Alty (UK) on the latest developments concerning substantive patent law harmonisation.