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The Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office (or, for short, the EPO Guidelines) are general instructions, for the examiners working at the European Patent Office (EPO) as well as for the parties interacting with the EPO, [notes 1] on the practice and procedure at the EPO in the various aspects of the prosecution of European patent applications and European patents.
This means that, after G 9/93, the only possibility for the proprietor of a European patent to voluntarily limit the scope conferred by its patent (e.g. for instance to strengthen the patent in view of some newly discovered prior art documents and/or in advance of envisaged litigation) was to request such limitation at the national level, i.e ...
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 ...
Rule 137 EPC: "Amendment of the European patent application" Rule 80 EPC: "Amendment of the European patent" Guidelines for Examination in the EPO, section h : "Amendments and Corrections" Legal Research Service for the Boards of Appeal, European Patent Office, Case Law of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO (10th edition, July 2022), ii. e ...
The European Patent Office (EPO [notes 1]) examines European patent applications and grants European patents under the European Patent Convention.Its headquarters are located at Munich, Germany, with a branch in Rijswijk (near The Hague, Netherlands), sub-offices in Berlin, Germany, and Vienna, Austria, and a "liaison bureau" in Brussels, Belgium.
Guidelines for Examination in the EPO, section c-ix, 1 : Divisional applications (in part C: Guidelines for Procedural Aspects of Substantive Examination) Legal Research Service for the Boards of Appeal, European Patent Office, Case Law of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO (9th edition, July 2019), ii. f : "Divisional applications"
Renewal fees are payable to the EPO in respect of pending European patent applications in respect of the third year from the date of filing. [1] These fees are paid in advance of the year in which they are due (such that the renewal fee for the third year falls due two years from the date of filing) and fall due on the last day of the month containing the anniversary of the date of filing. [2]
States with an extension (E) or validation (V) agreement with the European Patent Office (EPO), with respective date of entry into force Date States 1 December 2004 Bosnia and Herzegovina (E) 1 March 2015 Morocco [18] (V) 1 November 2015 Moldova [19] (V) 1 December 2017 Tunisia [20] (V) 1 March 2018 Cambodia [21] (V) 15 January 2024 Georgia [22 ...