Further country coverage available for European patent applicants
San Marino has joined the European Patent Convention (EPC) with an accession date
of 1 July 2009. European patent applications with a filing date on or after the
accession date will be able to designate San Marino as an EPC member state. The
EPC now has 36 member states and three extension states.
Meanwhile, the London Agreement entered into force for Lithuania, as the fifteenth contracting state, on 1 May 2009. Lithuania does not require proprietors of European patents to supply a translation of the full patent specification into Lithuanian, irrespective of the language in which the European Patent Office granted the patent, although a translation of the claims into Lithuanian is required. This law change will have no effect in practice, however, because the previous translation requirements under Lithuanian law were the same.
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