Preliminary European Parliament Report Published

Date:  Thu, 2012-12-27

BRUSSELS, BE & CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – M·CAM releases Preliminary Report commissioned by The Greens | European Free Alliance consortium within the European Parliament entitled, “Questionable Outputs from the European Patent Office: EPO Strains on EPC Articles 52 and 53.”

In December 2012, M∙CAM, Inc. was tasked by The Greens|EFA in the European Parliament to analyze, on a preliminary basis, certain outputs of the European Patent Office (EPO) that may be problematic in the context of the patentability standards of the European Patent Convention (EPC), Articles 52 and 53. To do so, M∙CAM aggregated a total of 482,102 patent issuances from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in eighteen selected US classification codes, and determined if European equivalents for any of those documents existed.

Read the Full Report HERE.