Unitary Patent Guide

This "Unitary Patent Guide" aims to provide companies, inventors and their representatives with an outline of the procedure involved in obtaining a Unitary Patent from the European Patent Office (EPO) once it has granted a European patent on the basis of the provisions laid down in the European Patent Convention (EPC). As to the terminology, you should note that, whereas the relevant legislation uses the terms "European patent with unitary effect" and "Unitary Patent Protection", this guide largely uses "Unitary Patent" as a synonym for these terms for the sake of simplicity.