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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 template creates an external link to a given section of the Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office (EPO) on the web site of the European Patent Office, by appending to the following URL:
The case law of the EPO Boards of Appeal is not binding on the EPO member states and different national courts acting on different cases may take a different view of patentability under Art. 52(2) EPC. The decision of EPO (directly or in appeal proceedings) not to a grant a European patent can however not be challenged in national courts.
Rule 164 EPC (Unity of invention during Euro-PCT procedure) Guidelines for Examination in the EPO, section f-v : "Unity of invention" 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. b : Unity of invention
European Patent Office, Official Journal (OJ) 2007, Special edition 4/2007 - Revision of the European Patent Convention (EPC 2000). Synoptic presentation EPC 1973/2000 – Part I: The Articles (PDF, 1.72 MB) Guidelines for Examination in the EPO, section d-x : "Limitation and revocation procedure"
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"
Database of professional representatives on the European Patent Office (EPO) web site; Guidelines for Examination in the EPO, section a-viii, 1 : "Representation" 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), iii. v : "Representation"
Rule 139 EPC contains two sentences, the first one providing for that, in general, "[l]inguistic errors, errors of transcription and mistakes in any document filed with the European Patent Office may be corrected on request", and the second stating that when the requested correction relates to the parts of a patent application or patent ...