The European Patent Office (EPO) grants European patents. Despite what the name suggests, these are not European Community patents or even Europe-wide patents. The European Patent Convention, according to which the EPO was founded, provides a single patent grant procedure, but not yet a single patent. After grant, the European patent becomes a number ("bundle") of national patents.
... governmental power, from the Greek language turannos. In Classical Antiquity[?] it did not always have inherently negative implications, it merely designated anyone who ...