European Patent Office

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intergovernmental organization body patent office supranational authority

The European Patent Office is a regional patent authority that examines and grants European patents for member states of the European Patent Organisation.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
European Patent Office canonical	19
European Patent Office Directorate for External Communications	1
European Patent Organisation	1
European Patent Organisation (as national office of a member state)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12975473 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: European Patent Office
Context triple: [UK Intellectual Property Office, collaboratesWith, European Patent Office]

A. European Union Intellectual Property Office
The European Union Intellectual Property Office is the EU agency responsible for registering and managing trademarks and designs that provide protection across all member states of the European Union.
B. Austrian Patent Office
The Austrian Patent Office is Austria’s national authority responsible for examining, granting, and administering patents and other industrial property rights, and also serves as an international searching authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
C. WIPO Center
WIPO Center is the World Intellectual Property Organization’s specialized institution that provides international arbitration, mediation, and other alternative dispute resolution services for intellectual property and technology disputes.
D. World Intellectual Property Organization
The World Intellectual Property Organization is a global intergovernmental body that develops and oversees international rules and services for the protection of intellectual property rights.
E. Visegrad Patent Institute
The Visegrad Patent Institute is an intergovernmental patent organization of the Visegrad Group countries that provides international search and preliminary examination services under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: European Patent Office
Target entity description: The European Patent Office is a regional patent authority that examines and grants European patents for member states of the European Patent Organisation.

A. European Union Intellectual Property Office
The European Union Intellectual Property Office is the EU agency responsible for registering and managing trademarks and designs that provide protection across all member states of the European Union.
B. Austrian Patent Office
The Austrian Patent Office is Austria’s national authority responsible for examining, granting, and administering patents and other industrial property rights, and also serves as an international searching authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
C. WIPO Center
WIPO Center is the World Intellectual Property Organization’s specialized institution that provides international arbitration, mediation, and other alternative dispute resolution services for intellectual property and technology disputes.
D. World Intellectual Property Organization
The World Intellectual Property Organization is a global intergovernmental body that develops and oversees international rules and services for the protection of intellectual property rights.
E. Visegrad Patent Institute
The Visegrad Patent Institute is an intergovernmental patent organization of the Visegrad Group countries that provides international search and preliminary examination services under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	intergovernmental organization body ⓘ patent office ⓘ supranational authority ⓘ
cooperatesWith	World Intellectual Property Organization ⓘ national patent offices of EPC member states ⓘ
countryServed	member states of the European Patent Organisation ⓘ
employs	administrative staff ⓘ legal professionals ⓘ patent examiners ⓘ
foundedBy	European Patent Convention ⓘ
grantsPatentType	European patent ⓘ
grantsRight	patent protection in designated EPC member states ⓘ
hasJurisdiction	European patent applications filed under the EPC ⓘ
hasMainFunction	examination of European patent applications ⓘ granting of European patents ⓘ
hasOffice	Athens ⓘ Berlin ⓘ Brussels ⓘ linked to: Brussels, Belgium Copenhagen ⓘ Lisbon ⓘ Madrid ⓘ Munich ⓘ Munich PschorrHöfe complex ⓘ Prague ⓘ Rijswijk ⓘ Rome ⓘ Stockholm ⓘ Tallinn ⓘ The Hague ⓘ Vienna ⓘ Warsaw ⓘ
hasOfficialLanguage	English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ
hasPresident	António Campinos ⓘ
hasPublication	European Patent Bulletin ⓘ Official Journal of the European Patent Office ⓘ linked to: Official Journal of the European Union
headquartersCountry	Germany ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Munich ⓘ
inception	1977 ⓘ
legalBasis	European Patent Convention ⓘ
locatedInTimeZone	Central European Summer Time ⓘ Central European Time ⓘ
officeHolderTitle	President of the European Patent Office ⓘ
officialName	European Patent Office ⓘ
partOf	European Patent Organisation ⓘ
regionServed	Europe ⓘ
shortName	EPO ⓘ
supervisingBody	Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation ⓘ
usesProcedure	centralized patent examination procedure ⓘ
website	https://www.epo.org ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

UK Intellectual Property Office → collaboratesWith → European Patent Office ⓘ

Japan Patent Office → cooperatesWith → European Patent Office ⓘ

China National Intellectual Property Administration → cooperatesWith → European Patent Office ⓘ

Korean Intellectual Property Office → cooperatesWith → European Patent Office ⓘ

Austrian Patent Office → cooperatesWith → European Patent Office ⓘ

Swedish Intellectual Property Office → memberOf → European Patent Organisation ⓘ

linked to: European Patent Office

Swedish Intellectual Property Office → cooperatesWith → European Patent Office ⓘ

Spanish Patent and Trademark Office → memberOf → European Patent Organisation (as national office of a member state) ⓘ

linked to: European Patent Office

Spanish Patent and Trademark Office → cooperatesWith → European Patent Office ⓘ

Alain Pompidou → employer → European Patent Office ⓘ

Erasmus Prize for the European Inventor Award (public vote) finalist → associatedWith → European Patent Office ⓘ

European Inventor Award → presentedBy → European Patent Office ⓘ

European Inventor Award → organizer → European Patent Office ⓘ

European Inventor Award → sponsor → European Patent Office ⓘ

European Inventor Award → administeredBy → European Patent Office Directorate for External Communications ⓘ

linked to: European Patent Office

European Patent Office → officialName → European Patent Office ⓘ

European intellectual property system → administeredBy → European Patent Office ⓘ

OEPM → cooperatesWith → European Patent Office ⓘ

SPTO → cooperatesWith → European Patent Office ⓘ

European Patent Network → hasMember → European Patent Office ⓘ

European Patent Network → coordinatedBy → European Patent Office ⓘ

Eurasian Patent Organization → cooperatesWith → European Patent Office ⓘ

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