Oral proceedings shall take place either at the instance of the European Patent Office if it considers this to be expedient or at the request of any party to the proceedings. However, the European Patent Office may reject a request for further oral proceedings before the same department where the parties and the subject of the proceedings are the same.
Oral proceedings, including delivery of the decision, shall be public, as regards the Boards of Appeal and the Enlarged Board of Appeal, after publication of the European patent application, and also before the Opposition Divisions, in so far as the department before which the proceedings are taking place does not decide otherwise in cases where admission of the public could have serious and unjustified disadvantages, in particular for a party to the proceedings.
See decision of the President of the EPO and notice from the EPO of 01.04.202017.12.2020 concerning oral proceedings by videoconference before examining divisions (OJ EPO 2020, A39, A40 and A72OJ EPO 2020, A134 and OJ EPO 2020, A135).
See decision of the President of the EPO and notice from the EPO of 14.04.202010.11.2020 concerning the modification and extension of the pilot project for oral proceedings by videoconference before opposition divisions (OJ EPO 2020, A41, A42 and A72OJ EPO 2020, A121, A122 and OJ EPO 2020, A135).
See notices of the Vice-President DG 3 (Special edition No. 3 OJ EPO 2007, H.1, H.2 and H.3; OJ EPO 2014, A21).
Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/2016/e/ar116.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021
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