Jan 1, 2003
After intensive preparations we have managed to transform the legal form of our office with effect from 1.1.2003 to meet the requirements of the future: our partnership "Sonn, Pawloy, Weinzinger & Köhler-Pavlik“ has…
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On 28 October 2002, the Government of the Republic of Hungary (HU) deposited its instrument of accession to the European Patent Convention (EPC) and to the Act revising the EPC of 29 November 2000. The EPC will…
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After the government of the Republic of Slovenia deposited their instruments of accession to the European Patent Convention (EPC) on September 18, 2002, the EPC will accordingly enter into force for the Republic of…
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After the governments of the Slowak Republic, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Estonia deposited their instruments of accession to the European Patent Convention (EPC), the EPC will accordingly enter into force for…
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The Austrian Patent Attorneys' Act has regulated the profession of patent attorney since June 7, 1967. On August 11, 2001, an amendment to this Act entered into force (Federal Law Gazette No. 2001/107). In particular,…
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As of June 1st, 2001, » Dr. Georg Heger became a partner of our office. Mr. Heger graduated from the Technical University of Vienna in electrical engineering and communication technologies in 1990. After his studies,…
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We are very glad to announce that shortly after the first edition (1997) our publisher (Ueberreuter Wirtschaftsverlag) has asked us to provide a second, extended edition of our book. As the first edition, this book…
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150 years ago, Frederick Paget, Englishman and brother of Sir James Paget, personal physician of Queen Victoria, founded our office at Riemergasse. From this date on, our office had the possibility to participate in the…
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The basic proposal for the revision of the EPC has been released end of July after taking into account the results of the discussions of the Committee on Patent Law from 3 - 6 July 2000. This basic proposal will be…
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On 1 August 2000 the Commission presented the proposal for a Council Regulation on the Community patent. The long-awaited draft, which followed the Green Paper of 1997, defines the legal environment for the Community…
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On 2 June 2000 the Patent Law Treaty (PLT) has been signed in Geneva. The PLT, once (in the 1980s) thought to become the chosen instrument for international harmonisation for material patent law (and was then, after…
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With the Patents Act amendment still to decide this year Austria is going to follow the international requests, especially of Germany, Japan and the USA, and will support and promote innovative companies by…
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In a landmark decision the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) has accepted claims drawn to plants as such as being patentable. This decision (G 1/98 "Transgenic Plant/NOVARTIS II") turned down…
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We are glad to announce that with effect of 1. January 2000 patent attorney's offices of Sonn, Pawloy, Weinzinger & Wolfram and Dipl.-Ing. Köhler-Pavlik are active in merged form as "Sonn, Pawloy, Weinzinger &…
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