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The national authority may however, as a service, choose to forward the divisional application to the EPO. If the authority does so, the divisional application is deemed to be received at the time the documents are received at the EPO. [29] The authority has, however, no obligation to do so. [30]
Under the European Patent Convention (EPC), any third party –i.e., essentially any person [notes 1] – may file observations on the patentability of an invention which is the subject of a European patent application or, after grant, subject of a European patent, [notes 2] especially to draw the attention of the European Patent Office (EPO) to some relevant prior art documents. [2]
The European Patent Bulletin is a weekly trilingual publication of the European Patent Office (EPO), generally issued every Wednesday. [1] It contains "entries made in the Register of European Patents, as well as other particulars, the publication of which is prescribed by [the European Patent Convention (EPC)] or its implementation".
The Global Dossier is an online public service launched in June 2014 by the five "IP5" offices, i.e. the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), China's National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) and the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), to offer an integrated access to the respective "file wrappers", free of ...
In patent law, a search report is a report established by a patent office, which mentions documents which may be taken into consideration in deciding whether the invention to which a patent application relates is patentable. [1] The documents mentioned in the search report usually form part of the prior art.
The practice relating to the filing of divisional applications under the EPC was clarified by the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO in June 2007. The Board held that a divisional application which on filing contained subject-matter extending beyond the content of the earlier application as filed could be amended later to remove the deficiency ...
The purpose of the search is to reveal prior art which may be relevant to the patentability of the alleged invention (that is, relevant to what is claimed, the "claimed subject-matter"). The search report is published, generally with the application 18 months after the priority date of the application, and as such is a public document. The ...
The Search Divisions of the EPO establish search reports, named "European search reports", on the basis of the claims, "with due regard to the description and any drawings". [33] The European search report established for a patent application is transmitted to the applicant together with copies of any cited documents. [34]