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The European Patent Organisation (sometimes abbreviated EPOrg in order to distinguish it from the European Patent Office, one of the two organs of the organisation) is a public international organisation created in 1977 by its contracting states to grant patents in Europe under the European Patent Convention (EPC) of 1973. The European Patent Organisation has its seat at Munich, Germany, and has administrative and financial autonomy. The European Patent Organisation is not legally bound to the European Union (EU) and has several members which are not themselves EU states.

The evolution of the Organisation is inherently linked to that of the European Patent Convention. See European Patent Convention for the history of the European patent system as set up by the European Patent Convention, operated by the European Patent Office, and supervised by the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation.