The Standing Advisory Committee before the European Patent Office (SACEPO,
French: ''Comité consultatif permanent auprès de l'OEB'',
German
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: ''Ständiger Beratender Ausschuss beim EPA'') is a committee advising the
European Patent Office
The European Patent Office (EPO) is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the other being the Administrative Council. The EPO acts as executive body for the organisation (EPO) on
patent law
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A p ...
issues.
In the context of the SACEPO meetings, the EPO meets users of the
European patent system from industry,
patent attorney
A patent attorney is an attorney who has the specialized qualifications necessary for representing clients in obtaining patents and acting in all matters and procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing patent applications and op ...
s, and national
patent offices to discuss mainly patent law issues.
[Susana Borrás, ''The governance of the European patent system: effective and legitimate?'', ]Economy and Society
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, Volume 35, Number 4, November 2006, pp. 594-610(17), (Publisher: Routledge
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). Along with the
EUROTAB, a pan-European group consisting of
lawyers in the patent field, and the
European Patent Judges' Symposium, the SACEPO is one of the most significant and institutionalised forums of legal professionals created and sponsored by the EPO.
References
External links
SACEPO web site(als
European Patent Organisation
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