No, European patents have 38 member countries and European patents have 28 member countries, so the cost of European patents has always been relatively high.

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European patents and European patents are useful to its member countries. If you want to specify an intermediate country, you need to translate it before requesting it, but the translation cost is relatively high.

Generally speaking, EU patents refer to EU appearance patents. If invention patents are to be protected in the EU, they are generally European patents. The EU appearance patent protects the appearance of products, and the scope of rights protection is the member States of the EU. European patents protect inventions, products or corresponding methods, including but not limited to EU member states. European patents can be protected in more than 30 countries at most.

According to the European Patent Treaty, a European patent application can become a European patent that takes effect in as many as 38 countries, which greatly simplifies the European patent protection mechanism and provides great convenience for us to apply for European patent protection. So far, 38 countries and 2 extended countries are parties to the European Patent Treaty. The extended country is not a formal signatory of the European patent treaty, but through the agreement with the European Patent Office, the European patent application can actually include the extended country.

For more information about European patents, you can go to Gaowo for consultation. Gaowo is a legal service organization specializing in intellectual property agency business, including Beijing Gaowo Law Firm and Beijing Gaowo International Intellectual Property Agency Co., Ltd., whose business mainly involves the basic application of trademarks, patents and copyrights, rights litigation and other matters.

For more information, I suggest you consult Gao Wo.