sole proprietor of the patent

previous proprietor of the patent

hold a certificate

pure process patent

patent holder | patentee | patent owner

holder of a Federal PET Diploma

(3) The holder of a Class II licence is entitled to receive a Class I licence after having served satisfactorily as the holder of a Class II licence for a period of one year.

The patent register consists of a series of patent lists, which are forms submitted by first persons, patentees, or innovator manufacturers.

2. On request, the Commission may grant a compulsory licence in respect of a first patent to the proprietor of a national or Community patent or to the proprietor of a plant variety right who cannot use his patent (second patent) or his national or Community plant variety right without infringing a Community patent (first patent), provided that the invention or new plant variety claimed in the second patent or plant variety right involves an important technical advance of considerable economic significance in relation to the invention claimed in the first patent.

Claims falling into this category are granted in Article 44 of the draft Community patent regulation awarding e.g. claims for damages of the holder of the Community patent in particular in the case of an infringement of a Community patent but also claims of third parties against the right holder where the latter has unduly exercised his rights and caused prejudice to those parties. Finally, in the context of the Commission proposal for a Council decision establishing the Community Patent Court and concerning appeals before the Court of First Instance, a claim for compensation for injuries caused by provisional or evidence-protection meas ...[+++]ures is foreseen.