What does CPC stand for?

Community Patent Convention (aka Convention for the European Patent for the Common Market or Luxembourg Convention)

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Introduction Most European national patent laws provide for an "experimental use exemption" to patent infringement, in many cases based on the Community Patent Convention (CPC).

Testing Times in the UK: Will Clinical Trials Infringe?

The Community Patent Convention ("CPC") was signed in Luxembourg on December 15, 1975, but is not yet in force.

To patent or not to patent: the European Union's new biotech directive

In the EU Member States, both are the same due to the harmonizing effect of, inter alia, the European Patent Convention and the Treaty of Strasburg and due to the harmonization obligation which followed from the Community Patent Convention, which never came into force but nevertheless effected an almost total harmonization of the rules on infringement and invalidity.

Cross-Border Injunctions. Where Are We And Where Should We Go?

Finally, Stolt argued that the Patents Act 1977 has the same legal effect as Article 35 of the Community Patent Convention.

Damages due but Patent invalid