Carl Josefsson (judge)
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Carl Josefsson (born 1965) is a former Swedish Judge at the
Svea Court of Appeal Svea Court of Appeal (), located in Stockholm, is one of six appellate courts in the Swedish legal system, as well as the oldest Swedish court currently in use (the Supreme Court being constituted only in 1789, over 150 years later). It is loca ...
in
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, and currently President of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO), a new position created within the EPO. He took up his new position on 1 March 2017 for a period of five years. As President of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO, Josefsson also acts as President of the
Enlarged Board of Appeal The European Patent Convention (EPC), the multilateral treaty instituting the legal system according to which European patents are granted, contains provisions allowing a party to appeal a decision issued by a first instance department of the Eu ...
. Josefsson was appointed judge at the Svea Court of Appeal in 2013. From 1998 to 2013, he worked at the Swedish Ministry of Justice.


See also

* Wim van der Eijk, head of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO and Chairman of the EPO
Enlarged Board of Appeal The European Patent Convention (EPC), the multilateral treaty instituting the legal system according to which European patents are granted, contains provisions allowing a party to appeal a decision issued by a first instance department of the Eu ...
until 1 December 2016


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President of the Boards of Appeal, Carl Josefsson
on the European Patent Office web site Living people 1965 births European Patent Organisation people 21st-century Swedish judges {{Sweden-law-bio-stub