European Patent Convention (EPC) provides a simplified patent application among member countries in European countries. The owner of the patent decides which countries the patent application will cover. European Patents are granted in one of three official languages (English, French or German) by the European Patent Office (EPO).

European Patent has the same effect with national applications in each country.

Necessary Qualifications For an invention to be protected as a European Patent:

• Novelty
• State of art
• Applicability to the industry

Advantages of European Patent System:

• Protection in numerous countries
• Saving time
• Easier application in member countries of EPC
• Examination procedure is applied for each European Patent and by the help of this a respectable patent is gained even for the countries that just have system of record. 
  
  

For General Public:

• Able to reach the latest technology
• Facilitation of technology transfer
• Encouragement of searches for alternative inventions
• Determining the propensity to Technical and Market
• Preventing the repetition the research and development facilities