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partial invalidation (Alexander Demidov); limitation (In European patent law, the limitation and revocation procedures before the European Patent Office (EPO) are post-grant, ex parte,[1] administrative[2] procedures allowing any European patent to be centrally[3] limited by an amendment of the claims or revoked, respectively.[4] These two procedures were introduced in the recently revised text of the European Patent Convention (EPC), i.e. the so-called EPC 2000, which entered into force on December 13, 2007. WK. On receipt of a request for revocation or limitation of a patent, ... Alexander Demidov) |
