7 August 2020PatentsMarco Conti

The mystery and mastery of double patenting

Double patenting is a mysterious issue. On the one hand, many patent systems (including the European Patent Convention [EPC] and Italian systems) don’t have any express provisions prohibiting double patenting, but it seems to be commonly accepted as an implicit principle.

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