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| Chairmen of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation |
| 1. Georges Vianès (19 October 1977 - 18 October 1981), French.[1][2] |
| 2. Ivor J. G. Davis (19 October 1981 - 18 October 1984), British.[2][3] |
| 3. Otto Leberl (19 October 1984 - October 1987), Austrian.[3][4] |
| 4. Albrecht Krieger (October 1987 - 18 October 1990), German.[4][5] |
| 5. Jean-Claude Combaldieu (19 October 1990 - 18 October 1993), French.[5][6] |
| 6. Per Lund Thoft (19 October 1993 - 30 November 1995), Danish.[6][7] |
| 7. Julián Álvarez-Álvarez (1 December 1995 - 4 March 1997), Spanish.[7][8] |
| 8. Sean Fitzpatrick (5 March 1997 - March 4, 2000), Irish.[8][9][10] |
| 9. Roland Grossenbacher (March 5, 2000 - March 4, 2009), Swiss.[9][10] a |
| 10. Benoît Battistelli (March 5, 2009 - June 30, 2009), French.[11] |
| 10a. Alberto Casado Cerviño (July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010) (Chairman ad interim), Spanish.[12] |
| 11. Jesper Kongstad (July 1, 2010 - September 30, 2017), Danish.[13][14] |
| 12. Christoph Ernst (October 1, 2017 - October 2018), German.[15][16][17] |
| 13. Josef Kratochvíl (January 1, 2019 - ), Czech.[18][19][20] |
| a After he stepped down, Roland Grossenbacher was made "Honorary Chairman" of the Administrative Council.[21] |
The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the other being the European Patent Office (EPO).[22] The Administrative Council acts as the Organisation's supervisory body[23] as well as, to a limited extent, its legislative body.[24][25] The actual legislative power to revise the European Patent Convention (EPC) lies with the Contracting States themselves when meeting at a Conference of the Contracting States.[26] In contrast, the EPO acts as executive body of the Organisation.[23][25]
- ^ Official Journal of the European Patent Office (OJ EPO) 1/1978, Report on the inaugural meeting of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (19-21 October 1977), p. 5.
- ^ a b OJ EPO 7/1981, Report on the 11th meeting of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (2 to 4 June 1981), p. 199.
- ^ a b OJ EPO 7/1984, Report on the 18th meeting of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (5 to 8 June 1984), p. 293.
- ^ a b OJ EPO 11/1987, Report on the 27th (extraordinary) meeting of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (8 October 1987), p. 473.
- ^ a b OJ EPO 8/1990, Report on the 37th meeting of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (26 to 29 June 1990), p. 333.
- ^ a b OJ EPO 1-2/1994, Report on the 50th meeting of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (7 to 10 December 1993), p. 1.
- ^ a b OJ EPO 1-2/1996, Report on the 60th meeting of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (4 to 8 December 1995), p. 3.
- ^ a b OJ EPO 4/1997, Report on the 66th meeting of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (Munich, 5 March 1997) Archived 21 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, p. 129.
- ^ a b OJ EPO 7/2000, Report on the 80th meeting of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (6 to 8 June 2000) Archived 22 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, p. 307.
- ^ a b Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property web site, EPO: victory for Switzerland Archived February 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Bern, October 15, 1999. Consulted on March 24, 2008.
- ^ EPO web site, Benoît Battistelli to head the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Archived 2008-12-17 at the Wayback Machine, News, December 11, 2008. Consulted on December 11, 2008.
- ^ EPO web site, European Patent Organisation → Administrative Council → Composition Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine. Consulted on November 21, 2009.
- ^ European Patent Office website, Jesper Kongstad elected Chairman of Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Archived 2010-07-03 at the Wayback Machine, News, June 29, 2010. Consulted on June 30, 2010.
- ^ "Re-election of the Chair of the Administrative Council". European Patent Office. 26 March 2013. Archived from the original on 28 March 2013. Retrieved April 6, 2013.
- ^ Klos, Mathieu; Schulze, Christina (29 June 2017). "Europäisches Patentamt: Deutscher wird neuer Chef des Verwaltungsrats" [European Patent Office: German becomes new head of the Administrative Council]. JUVE (in German). JUVE Verlag für juristische Information GmbH. Archived from the original on 8 July 2017. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
- ^ Krempl, Stefan (30 June 2017). "Europäisches Patentamt: Deutscher löst Dänen an Verwaltungsratsspitze ab" [European Patent Office: German replaces Dane at the head of the Administrative Council]. heise online (in German). Heise Media. Archived from the original on 30 June 2017. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
- ^ "157th meeting of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (Munich, 10 and 11 October 2018)". Munich: Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation. 12 October 2018. Archived from the original on 18 October 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
Finally, the Council took note of Christoph ERNST's resignation, with immediate effect, from his position as Chairman of the Administrative Council.
- ^ "Josef Kratochvíl elected Chairman of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation". epo.org. European Patent Office. 12 December 2018. Archived from the original on 1 May 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
- ^ Klos, Mathieu (13 December 2018). "Administrative Council announces new chairman". Juve Patent. Archived from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
- ^ "Report on the 157th and 158th meetings of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (10 and 11 October 2018 and 12 and 13 December 2018 respectively)". Official Journal of the European Patent Office (January 2019). European Patent Office: A1. 31 January 2019. Archived from the original on 31 July 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
...the Council unanimously elected Josef KRATOCHVÍL (CZ) as its Chairman for a term of 3 years, starting on 1 January 2019.
- ^ EPO web site, "A special tribute to a special chairman" Archived 2009-04-10 at the Wayback Machine, News, 1 April 2009. Consulted on April 3, 2009.
- ^ Article 4(2) EPC
- ^ a b Article 4(3) EPC
- ^ Article 33 EPC
- ^ a b Gower's Report on Intellectual Property Archived 2008-03-19 at the Wayback Machine, para 1.34
- ^ Article 172 EPC