STATUS OF LONDON AGREEMENT
The London agreement defines the translation rules for
validating European patents in the individual EPO member states. In
the first below schedule you can see which countries have
acceeded the London Agreement and which translation rules are valid
in these countries.
|
Country
|
Prescribed
language for
translation of Description
|
Requirements regarding translation of claims |
|
United Kingdom |
None
|
|
Switzerland
Lichtenstein
|
|
Luxembourg
Monaco
France
Germany
|
|
Croatia
Denmark 1)
Iceland 1)
Netherlands1)
Sweden 1)
Hungary
Finland
|
English
|
Croatian
Danish
Icelandic
Dutch
Swedish
Hungarian
Finnish
|
|
Latvia
Slovenia
Lithuania
|
No translation
required
|
Latvian
Slovene
Lithuanian
|
1) The description may also be supplied in the national
language
|
Other EPO member states
(not having
ratified the London Agreement)
|
|
Austria |
Ireland |
Romania |
|
Belgium |
Italy |
Slowak
Republic |
|
Bulgaria |
Spain |
Turkey |
|
Cyprus |
Malta |
Macedonia |
|
Czech Republic |
Norway |
San
Marino |
|
Estonia |
Poland |
|
Greece |
Portugal |
|
