Insights into the Patent Covering PlateMatching Technology
The Plate Matching technology is protected by European and international patents.
In 2008, EngiNe was granted patent EP 1 870 868 by the European Patent Office for the “System and Method for Detection of Average Speed of Vehicles for Traffic Control.” This patent is based on an innovative technology that does not utilize automatic number plate recognition. The patent has also been extended to major non-European countries, including the United States, Russia, former USSR countries, Canada, South Africa, China, etc.
Attached to this document, you will find the European Patent Certificate EP 1 870 868, the corresponding patent text (available at this link), and the text of the corresponding international extension WO2008041210 (available at this link).Additionally, electronic versions of the main international patents granted are available for viewing, including those granted in the United States, Canada, China, and the former USSR countries (EAPO: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan). Both the European search report and the international search report have classified all the analyzed documents with the label ‘A’ after a thorough investigation of prior patents.
The correct interpretation of these labels
The correct interpretation of these labels can be found on the institutional sites of the European Patent Office (EPO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
According to the EPO, the letter ‘A’ indicates that a cited document in the European search report represents state-of-the-art information that does not affect the novelty or inventiveness of the claimed invention.
Similarly, the WIPO guidelines state that the same interpretation applies to international patents.
Therefore, in both the EP 1 870 868 patent search report and the international patent search report WO2008041210, all the previously examined documents labeled ‘A’ represent state-of-the-art information that does not affect the novelty or inventiveness of the PlateMatching technology patent. This confirms that the technology is considered new and inventive by the European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization, the highest authorities in the field.