Interview with Mrs. Aliki Nichogiannopoulou of the EPO, Part 1

From the animation and the 2003 Nat. Rev. Drug Disc. article, you learned that the European Patent Convention (EPC) is the largest regional agreement under which a single patent application can cover a number of geographically related countries. Under the EPC, a single patent application can be examined by an Examiner from the European Patent Office (EPO).