# Regulation (EU) No 1257/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2012 implementing enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection, Article 2: Definitions

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) ‘Participating Member State’ means a Member State which participates in enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection by virtue of Decision 2011/167/EU, or by virtue of a decision adopted in accordance with the second or third subparagraph of Article 331(1) of the TFEU, at the time the request for unitary effect as referred to in Article 9 is made;
(b) ‘European patent’ means a patent granted by the European Patent Office (hereinafter ‘EPO’) under the rules and procedures laid down in the EPC;
(c) ‘European patent with unitary effect’ means a European patent which benefits from unitary effect in the participating Member States by virtue of this Regulation;
(d) ‘European Patent Register’ means the register kept by the EPO under Article 127 of the EPC;
(e) ‘Register for unitary patent protection’ means the register constituting part of the European Patent Register in which the unitary effect and any limitation, licence, transfer, revocation or lapse of a European patent with unitary effect are registered;
(f) ‘European Patent Bulletin’ means the periodical publication provided for in Article 129 of the EPC.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2012/1257/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-1257/article-2
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