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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.
Guidelines for Examination in the EPO, section d : Guidelines for Opposition and Limitation/Revocation Procedures; 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), iv. c : "Opposition procedure"
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"
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]
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:
According to the Patent Information News' magazine published by the EPO, a 2013 independent study compared Espacenet with DepatisNet, Freepatentsonline, Google Patent and the public search facility at the USPTO. In that study, Espacenet reportedly obtained the highest score for both data coverage and customer support, and the best overall ...