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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.
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 ...
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
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.
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"
A characteristic of European patent law as it stands today is that European patents granted by the European Patent Office (EPO), and patents granted by national patent offices are available, [3] and may possibly –if permitted by national law and, if so, to the extent permitted by national law [4] – co-exist within a given jurisdiction.
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"