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Chapter III – Effects of the European patent and the European patent application

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Article 64 – Rights conferred by a European patent

Article 63 – Term of the European patent
Article 64 – Rights conferred by a European patent
Article 65 – Translation of the specification of the European patent
Article 66 – Equivalence of European filing with national filing
Article 67 – Rights conferred by a European patent application after publication
Article 68 – Effect of revocation of the European patent
Article 69 – Extent of protection
Article 70 – Authentic text of a European patent application or European patent

Article 64 38
Rights conferred by a European patent

A revised version of the European Patent Convention entered into force on 13 December 2007. The provisions of the revised Convention apply unless the transitional provisions provide for the applicability of the EPC 1973.

(1) A European patent shall, subject to the provisions of paragraph 2, confer on its proprietor from the date of publication of the mention of its grant, in each Contracting State in respect of which it is granted, the same rights as would be conferred by a national patent granted in that State.

(2) If the subject-matter of the European patent is a process, the protection conferred by the patent shall extend to the products directly obtained by such process.

(3) Any infringement of a European patent shall be dealt with by national law.


38See decisions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 2/88, G 1/98 (Annex I).

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