Extension of European Patents to Montenegro

On 13 February 2009, the President of the European Patent Office and Montenegro's Minister for Economic Development signed an agreement on the extension of European patents (extension agreement).

This agreement enters into force on 1 March 2010. From that date it will be possible to extend to Montenegro (ME) the protection conferred by European patent applications and patents. Extended European patent applications and patents will confer essentially the same protection in Montenegro as the patents granted by the EPO for the now 36 member states of the European Patent Organisation.

Further information will be published on the homepage of the European Patent Office www.european-patent-office.org respectively in the Official Journal of the European Patent Office.