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The grant procedure before the European Patent Office (EPO) is an ex parte, administrative procedure, which includes the filing of a European patent application, [1] the examination of formalities, [2] the establishment of a search report, [3] the publication of the application, [4] its substantive examination, [5] and the grant of a patent, [6 ...
European divisional applications must be filed directly or by post with one of the filing offices of the EPO, i.e. at the European Patent Office at Munich, The Hague, or Berlin. [28] It may also be filed using the so-called epoline online filing software.
epoline [1] is a set of web-based computer programs and services enabling applicants, patentees and their representatives to file patent applications online before the European Patent Office (EPO), as well as to monitor the status of patent applications during their prosecution and patents during an opposition.
Before the European Patent Office (EPO), divisional applications can be filed under Article 76 EPC.A European divisional application is a new application which is separate and independent from the parent application unless specific provisions in the European Patent Convention (EPC) require something different.
The EPC provides a legal framework for the granting of European patents, [1] via a single, harmonised procedure before the European Patent Office (EPO). A single patent application , in one language, [ 2 ] may be filed at the EPO in Munich , [ 3 ] at its branch in The Hague , [ 3 ] [ notes 2 ] at its sub-office in Berlin , [ 5 ] or at a ...
The European Patent Office (EPO) [notes 1] is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the other being the Administrative Council. [4] The EPO acts as executive body for the organisation [ 5 ] [ 6 ] while the Administrative Council acts as its supervisory body [ 5 ] as well as, to a limited extent, its legislative body.
A patent application is a request pending at a patent office for the grant of a patent for an invention described in the patent specification [notes 1] and a set of one or more claims stated in a formal document, including necessary official forms and related correspondence. It is the combination of the document and its processing within the ...
Overall, about 5.5-6% of the European patents granted by the European Patent Office are opposed. [ 45 ] [ 51 ] [ 78 ] Of those, over the course of 1980–2005, about 1/3 were revoked, 1/3 were maintained in an amended form, which generally means "reduced in scope", and 1/3 were maintained as granted, that is, the opposition was rejected.