EPO Sees Double (Patenting)
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If an authority grants two patents for the same invention to the same applicant, that is double patenting. In most European states the law requires that one of the patents must cease.
Since it started, the European Patent Office (EPO) official view has been that it should not allow double patenting. The Guidelines for Examination explicitly [...]
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