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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.
The European Patent Office (EPO) [notes 1] is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the other being the Administrative Council. [4] The EPO acts as executive body for the organisation [ 5 ] [ 6 ] while the Administrative Council acts as its supervisory body [ 5 ] as well as, to a limited extent, its legislative body.
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 ...
This means that, after G 9/93, the only possibility for the proprietor of a European patent to voluntarily limit the scope conferred by its patent (e.g. for instance to strengthen the patent in view of some newly discovered prior art documents and/or in advance of envisaged litigation) was to request such limitation at the national level, i.e ...
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 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