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R.100 EPC Examination of appeals

Unless otherwise provided, the provisions relating to proceedings before the department which has taken the decision impugned shall apply to appeal proceedings.

(2)

In the examination of the appeal, the Board of Appeal shall invite the parties, as often as necessary, to file observations, within a period to be specified, on communications issued by itself or observations submitted by another party.

(3)

If the applicant fails to reply in due time to an invitation under paragraph 2, the European patent application shall be deemed to be withdrawn, unless the decision impugned was taken by the Legal Division.

[ Art. 110 111 R. 102 111 ]

See decisions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 7/91, G 8/91, G 9/91, G 10/91, G 9/92, G 8/93, G 10/93, G 6/95, G 1/99, G 3/99 (Annex I).

See notice from the Vice-President DG 3 of 17.03.2008 (OJ EPO 2008, 220).

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/2016/e/r100.html

Date retrieved: 17 May 2021

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EPC Articles

X A.110 EPC Examination of appeals

X A.111 EPC Decision in respect of appeals

EPC Implementing Rules

X Chapter I Appeals procedure

X R.102 EPC Form of decision of the Board of Appeal

X R.111 EPC Form of decisions

EPO Guidelines - A Formalities Examination

X GL A IV 1.1.1 Pendency of the earlier application

Offical Journal of the EPO

X OJ EPO SE 2/2021, p63 - V. PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE BOARDS OF APPEAL

X OJ EPO SE 2/2021, p19 - II. PATENT APPLICATION AND AMENDMENTS

X OJ EPO SE 1/2021, p183 - Annex 2. Table setting out the amendments to the RPBA and the explanatory remarks

X OJ EPO SE 1/2021, p41 - III.2 - Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 [ 1 ]

X OJ EPO 2021, A35 - Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal

X OJ EPO SE 4/2020, p73 - V. PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE BOARDS OF APPEAL

X OJ EPO SE 2/2020, p17 - 2. Table setting out the amendments to the RPBA and the explanatory remarks

X OJ EPO SE 2/2020, p1 - 1. Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020

X OJ EPO SE 1/2020, p178 - Annex 2. Table setting out the amendments to the RPBA and the explanatory remarks

X OJ EPO SE 1/2020, p42 - III.2 - Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020

X OJ EPO 2020, A26 - Opinion of the Enlarged Board of Appeal dated 18 July 2019G 1/18

X OJ EPO 2019, A63 - Decision of the Administrative Council of 26 June 2019 approving the revised version of the Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal ( CA/D 5/19 Corr. 1 ) [ 1 ]

Case Law Book

X CLR RPBA2020 Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal – in force as from 1 January 2020

Case Law Book: III Amendments

X CLR III I 1 Possibility of filing auxiliary requests

X CLR III A 1.2.5 Administrative notice with no legal consequences

X CLR III C 4.8 Request for oral proceedings as a reply to a communication

X CLR III Q 1.2 Continuation of the opposition proceedings after lapse or surrender (Rule 84(1) EPC)

Case Law Book: IV Divisional Applications

X CLR IV A 9 Deemed withdrawal of the application (Rule 100(3) EPC)

X CLR IV B 2.6.1 Discretion of the examining division under Rule 137(3) EPC

X CLR IV C 2.1.1 General

X CLR IV C 3.4.3 Grounds raised against amended claims

Case Law Book: V Priority

X CLR V A 1.1 General

X CLR V A 4.1.1 Legal basis

X CLR V A 4.11.4.A Admission of requests already refused by the examining division

X CLR V A 9.8.2 Withdrawal of appeal under Rule 103(2) EPC

Case Law of the Enlarged Board

X G 0007/91 (Withdrawal of appeal) of 5.11.1992

X G 0008/91 (Withdrawal of appeal) of 5.11.1992

X G 0009/91 (Power to examine) of 31.3.1993

X G 0010/91 (Examination of opposition/appeals) of 31.3.1993

X G 0009/92 (Non-appealing party) of 14.7.1994

X G 0008/93 (Withdrawal of opposition) of 13.6.1994

X G 0010/93 (Scope of examination in ex parte appeal) of 30.11.1994

X G 0006/95 (Interpretation of Rule 71a(1) EPC) of 24.7.1996

X G 0001/99 (Reformatio in peius / 3M) of 2.4.2001

X G 0003/99 (Admissibility of joint opposition or joint appeal/HOWARD FLOREY) of 18.2.2002

X G 0001/12 () of 30.4.2014

X G 0003/14 () of 24.3.2015

General Case Law

X J 0011/09 (Wiedereinsetzung) of 23.8.2010

X R 0007/09 () of 22.7.2009

X R 0001/11 () of 27.6.2011

X R 0004/17 (Fundamental violation of right to be heard/RHODIA CHIMIE) of 29.1.2018

X T 1355/04 () of 7.11.2008

X T 1382/04 (Transaction monitor/FORTENT) of 30.7.2009

X T 0289/06 (Constellation de satellites/ALCATEL LUCENT) of 17.12.2007

X T 0263/07 (Application programming interface/SONY) of 18.1.2011

X T 1685/07 () of 4.8.2010

X T 0980/08 (Internet-enabled boot loader/INTRINSYC SOFTWARE) of 14.3.2012

X T 1251/08 (Serial bus simulation / TERADYNE) of 29.6.2012

X T 1472/08 (Fungizide Triazolopyrimidine/BASF) of 8.2.2012

X T 2334/08 (Identification of delivery objects/NEXTLIMIT) of 9.8.2012

X T 0144/09 () of 4.5.2011

X T 0949/09 (Arrayed Biomolecules/ILLUMINA) of 17.10.2012

X T 0520/10 (Protein expression/CELLTECH) of 11.6.2013

X T 0648/10 () of 11.5.2011

X T 1272/10 (Skin penetration enhancers/US GOVERNMENT) of 11.7.2016

X T 1313/10 () of 21.3.2014

X T 2536/10 () of 13.1.2014

X T 0742/11 (Due care/CHEQUEPOINT FRANCHISE CORP.) of 29.3.2012

X T 1037/11 () of 29.6.2015

X T 1825/11 () of 14.7.2015

X T 2159/11 () of 13.1.2015

X T 0854/12 (Unterbrechung des Verfahrens) of 8.8.2016

X T 1788/12 () of 4.12.2013

X T 0480/13 () of 5.11.2014

X T 0614/13 (ZulÃ¤ssigkeit des Beitritts/EMS-PATENT) of 2.7.2015

X T 0265/14 (RÃ¼cknahme der Beschwerde nach Zweitbescheid der Kammer) of 3.7.2018

X T 0977/14 () of 22.10.2015

X T 0346/15 () of 13.9.2018

X T 1823/16 (Network Adapter/SONY ERICSSON) of 28.6.2018

X T 0590/18 (GÃ¼ltigkeit des Formblattes EPA Form 1010) of 4.7.2018