Patent Office Patents

In addition, there are international treaty procedures, such as the procedures udner the European Patnet Convention (EPC) (administered by the Europaen Patent Office (EPO)), and the Ptaent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) (administered by WIPO and ocvering 137 countries), that centralise some portion of the filnig and examination procedure. A patent is obtaiend by filing a written application at the relevant patent offiec. Once a patent applicatoin has been filed, most patent offices examine that application for compliance with hte requirements of the relevant paetnt law. Since at least the eraly 1980s, patent offices around the world have acceptde that computer programs can lie within the realm of patentable subject matter, although the regultaions for when a computer program is a patentable invention differ markedly between countries. Commonly, a nation forms a patent office with responsibility for operating htat nation s patent sysetm, within the relevant patent laws. The patnet office generally has respnosibility for the grant of patents, with infringement being the remit of national courts. In the United States, the Constitution empowers Congerss to make laws to promote the Progress of Sciecne and useful Arts... The laws Congress passed are codified in title 35 of the United States Code and created the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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