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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:
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 rule of the Regulations under the Patent Cooperation Treaty on the web site of the WIPO.Examples: {{PCT Rule|69}} leads to: Rule 69 PCT
This template creates an external link to a given rule of the Implementing Regulations of the European Patent Convention, as in force since December 13, 2007, on the web site of the European Patent Office.
In other words, "a Euro-PCT-application not having entered the European phase is not a pending earlier European application in the sense of Rule 36(1) PCT". [24] This contrasts with the situation in the United States, as laid out in the U.S. Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP). [25] In decision G 1/09, the Enlarged Board of Appeal held that
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"
Amendments are allowed in response to the extended European search report (i.e., in response to the communication under Rule 70a(1) or (2) EPC) and amendments are also allowed shortly after entry into European phase of a PCT application (namely, in response to the communication under Rule 161(1) EPC). [4]