European Patent Office – Access to Law

Content on the European Patent Office (EPO) site includes the text of the European Patent Convention (EPC); an online version of the book Case Law of the Boards of Appeal (9th edition, 2019); a complete searchable database of decisions of the EPO’s Boards of Appeal from 1979 onwards; and information on the development of the Unitary Patent system and the Unified Patent Court. All of this may be found under “Law & practice.”