EPO allowance rate falls beneath 50% for the first time
It is now harder to get a European patent than at any time since the EPO opened for business back in 1978. According to a press release yesterday, the approval rate for European patent applications in 2008 dropped to 49.5%. In 2007, the figure stood…
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