A.113 EPC Right to be heard and basis of decisions

(1)

The decisions of the European Patent Office may only be based on grounds or evidence on which the parties concerned have had an opportunity to present their comments.

(2)

The European Patent Office shall examine, and decide upon, the European patent application or the European patent only in the text submitted to it, or agreed, by the applicant or the proprietor of the patent.

See decisions/opinions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 7/91, G 8/91, G 4/92, G 2/04 (Annex I).

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Date retrieved: 30 December 2018

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EPC Articles

X Chapter I Common provisions governing procedure

X A.97 EPC Grant or refusal

X A.112a EPC Article 112a Petition for review by the Enlarged Board of Appeal

EPC Implementing Rules

X Decision of the Administrative Council of 25 October 2007 approving amendments to the Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office

EPO Guidelines - B Search

X GL B II 4.2 Additional European searches

X GL B III 1.1 Opinions in relation to the search report

X GL B XI 3.8 Making suggestions

EPO Guidelines - C Procedureal Aspects of Substantive Examination

X GL C III 3.3 Refund of additional search fees

X GL C IV 1 General procedure

X GL C IV 3 Further action upon examination of replies

X GL C IV 4 Later stages of examination

X GL C V 4.7.1 Communications/oral proceedings after resumption

X GL C V 4.9 Reply explicitly disapproving the proposed text without indicating an alternative text

X GL C V 6.1 When does the examining division resume examination after approval?

X GL C V 14 Refusal

X GL C V 15 Decision according to the state of the file

X GL C V 15.3 Issuing a self-contained decision

X GL C V 15.4 Issuing a further communication (no refusal)

EPO Guidelines - D Opposition and Limitation/Revocation Procedures

X GL D IV 1.4.2 Deficiencies which may no longer be remedied in accordance with Rule 77(1) and Rule 77 (2) , resulting in the opposition being rejected as inadmissible

X GL D VI 2.1 Basis for the examination

X GL D VI 7.2.1 Procedural requirements

X GL D X 4.4 Further stages of the examination

X GL D X 5 Formal procedure for limitation when the request is allowable

X GL D X 6 Rejection of the request

EPO Guidelines - E General Procedural Matters

X GL E III 1 General

X GL E III 8.3.3.3 Procedure in examination proceedings

X GL E III 8.6 Facts, evidence or amendments introduced at a late stage

X GL E III 10.3 Subject-matter of minutes

X GL E III 11.4 Technical problems

X GL E VI 2 Late filed submissions

X GL E X 1.1 General remarks

X GL E X 2.1 Examples

X GL E X 2.2 Authoritative text of documents

X GL E X 2.6 Reasoning of decisions

X GL E X 2.9 Main and auxiliary requests

EPO Guidelines - F The European Patent Application

X GL F IV 3.3 Objection under Rule 43(2) or Rule 137(5)

EPO Guidelines - H Amendments and Corrections

X GL H II 2.3 After receipt of the first communication – Rule 137(3)

X GL H II 2.6 Further requests for amendment after approval

X GL H II 7.2 Restriction to an unsearched invention

X GL H II 7.3 No restriction to a single invention searched

X GL H III 2.1.1 Rule 137(4) communication and response thereto

X GL H III 2.1.3 Rule 137(4) and oral proceedings

X GL H III 3.1.1 Sequence of requests

X GL H III 3.1.3 Neither main nor auxiliary requests allowable

X GL H III 3.4.1 Written procedure

X GL H III 3.5.1 General principles

X GL H VI 3.1 Admissibility of corrections

EPO Guide for Applicants, part II Int. - E Euro-PCT procedure before the EPO as designated or elected Office

X GA E XIII 5 Restoration of priority under Rule 49ter PCT

Case Law Book

X CLR RPBA Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office

Case Law Book: I Patentability

X CLR I D 3.2 purpose or effect

Case Law Book: III Amendments

X CLR III B 1 1.Introduction

X CLR III B 2.1 of the right to be heard examined ex officio

X CLR III B 2.2.1 proceedings

X CLR III B 2.3.1 principles

X CLR III B 2.3.2 meaning of "grounds or evidence"

X CLR III B 2.3.6 on the IPER

X CLR III B 2.4.1 principles

X CLR III B 2.4.2 made after communication

X CLR III B 2.4.3 to consider evidence

X CLR III B 2.4.4 reference to jurisprudence

X CLR III B 2.5.3 refusal after communication

X CLR III B 2.6 right to be heard in oral proceedings

X CLR III B 2.6.1 of a new claim or relevant document

X CLR III B 2.6.2 of new arguments

X CLR III B 2.7 right to be heard in case of the non-attendance of oral proceedings

X CLR III B 2.7.1 and evidence put forward for the first time during oral proceedings in inter partes cases – G 4/92

X CLR III B 2.7.3 at oral proceedings before the boards - Article 15(3) RPBA

X CLR III B 3.1 3.1.General

X CLR III B 3.3 where the EPO is uncertain or mistaken about the approval of the text

X CLR III C 1.2 to oral proceedings before the Receiving Section

X CLR III C 3.1 to present comments and non-attendance of a party by choice

X CLR III C 4.7 presentations and other visual aids

X CLR III C 4.10 time during oral proceedings

X CLR III G 1 1.Introduction

X CLR III G 3.2 frame for submitting evidence

X CLR III G 3.3 to be heard

X CLR III G 4.1 of free evaluation of evidence

X CLR III K 4.2.1 requirement for reasoned decisions under Rule 111(2) EPC

X CLR III K 4.4 to have comments considered

Case Law Book: IV Divisional Applications

X CLR IV B 2.4.1 to correct deficiencies and to propose amendments (Rule 71(1) EPC)

X CLR IV B 2.7.2 of the applicant's right to present comments

X CLR IV B 2.8.1 issues

X CLR IV B 2.8.2 taken into account in the decision of the examining division

X CLR IV B 2.8.3 on non-compliance: the essential reasoning

X CLR IV B 2.8.4 reasoning based on an IPER

X CLR IV B 2.8.6 fide attempt by the applicant to overcome the objections

X CLR IV B 3.2.3.A General issues

X CLR IV B 3.2.3.B Auxiliary request issues

X CLR IV B 3.4 after approval of the text for grant

X CLR IV C 1.2.1 submissions

X CLR IV C 1.3.13 of a party from oral proceedings (Art. 15(3) RPBA)

X CLR IV C 5.2 for revocation during opposition and opposition appeal proceedings

X CLR IV D 3.4.6 to comment on new grounds for opposition

X CLR IV D 5.1 of equal treatment

X CLR IV D 5.2 to file observations under Article 101(1) EPC

X CLR IV D 5.4 communication concerning submissions by the other party - adequate opportunity to reply

X CLR IV D 5.5 to present comments

X CLR IV E 4.2.6.D Applicant (proprietor) absent from oral proceedings

X CLR IV E 4.3.1 principles

X CLR IV E 4.4.4 or diverging versions of claims

X CLR IV E 7.2.4 facts or evidence

X CLR IV E 8.4.3 to be heard

X CLR IV E 8.4.4 reasons given in the decision at first instance

X CLR IV E 8.6.1 link between substantial procedural violation and filing of appeal

X CLR IV F 3.3.1 for a petition for review

X CLR IV F 3.3.2 listed exhaustively

X CLR IV F 3.3.3 of substantive law excluded

X CLR IV F 3.5.2 of a valid objection

X CLR IV F 3.10 of proof

X CLR IV F 3.13.1 3.13.1General

X CLR IV F 3.13.2 violation of Article 113 EPC - causal link

X CLR IV F 3.13.8 for a decision allegedly surprising

X CLR IV F 3.13.10 of the parties' arguments in the written decision

X CLR IV F 3.13.17 violation of Article 113(2) EPC

X CLR IV F 3.13.18 examples of unsuccessful petitions

X CLR IV F 3.14.1 104(a) EPC - failure to arrange requested oral proceedings

X CLR IV F 3.14.3 petition under Rule 104(b) EPC

Case Law Book: V Priority

X CLR V 2.6.5 about the conduct of the examination - duties of the Examination Board

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 0004/92 (Basis of decisions) of 29.10.1993

X G 0002/04 (Transfer of opposition/HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE) of 25.5.2005

X G 0001/10 (Request to correct patent/FISHER-ROSEMOUNT) of 23.7.2012

General Case Law

X J 0016/08 (Correction of designation/NISSAN) of 31.8.2009

X J 0001/10 (Designation of inventor/KOVAC) of 30.7.2010

X J 0013/10 () of 27.5.2011

X J 0001/13 () of 27.11.2013

X R 0002/09 () of 29.7.2009

X R 0004/09 () of 30.4.2010

X R 0008/09 (Fundamental violation of Article 113) of 23.9.2009

X R 0009/09 () of 22.3.2010

X R 0010/09 () of 22.6.2010

X R 0011/09 (Fundamental violation of Article 113 EPC/AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS) of 22.11.2010

X R 0013/09 (Fundamental violation of Article 113 EPC/ALCON) of 22.10.2009

X R 0014/09 () of 22.12.2009

X R 0015/09 (Schwerwiegender VerstoÃ gegen Art. 113 EPÃ/GLAS PLATZ) of 5.7.2010

X R 0017/09 (Appeal deemed not filed/BASSI) of 1.10.2010

X R 0018/09 (Fundamental violation of Article 113 EPC/JOHNSON) of 27.9.2010

X R 0019/09 (Fundamental violation of Article 113/UNAXIS) of 24.3.2010

X R 0020/09 (Schwerwiegender VerstoÃ gegen Art. 113 (1) EPÃ, sonstiger … of 7.9.2010

X R 0021/09 () of 19.3.2010

X R 0001/10 (Offensichtlich unzulÃ¤ssiger ÃberprÃ¼fungsantrag/Ahrweiler) of 22.2.2011

X R 0003/10 (Right to be heard in oral proceedings/SALMON BRANDS AS) of 29.9.2011

X R 0006/10 (Occlusion apparatus/BOARD OF REGENTS UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM) of 28.7.2010

X R 0009/10 (Fundamental violation of Article 113 EPC/SONY) of 10.9.2010

X R 0012/10 () of 14.12.2011

X R 0013/10 () of 24.3.2011

X R 0014/10 (Fundamental violation of Article 113 and R. 104(b) EPC) of 26.1.2011

X R 0015/10 (Fundamental violation of Article 113 EPC/SEIKO) of 25.11.2010

X R 0016/10 () of 20.12.2010

X R 0017/10 () of 15.6.2011

X R 0019/10 () of 16.3.2011

X R 0020/10 (Grounds for review/BOREALIS TECHNOLOGY OY) of 25.8.2011

X R 0021/10 (Violation prÃ©tendue fondamentale de l'Art. 113(1)/BRIDGESTONE … of 16.3.2011

X R 0022/10 (Fundamental violation of Article 113 EPC/ZALTRON) of 7.3.2011

X R 0023/10 (Offensichtlich unbegrÃ¼ndeter ÃberprÃ¼fungsantrag/LUK) of 15.7.2011

X R 0001/11 () of 27.6.2011

X R 0002/11 (Violation fondamentale allÃ©guÃ©e de l'article 113(1) CBE/KSB S.A.S … of 23.11.2011

X R 0004/11 (Pour spout fitments/ELOPAK SYSTEMS) of 16.4.2012

X R 0005/11 () of 22.8.2011

X R 0006/11 (Petition for review/DU PONT) of 4.11.2011

X R 0007/11 () of 5.10.2011

X R 0008/11 () of 29.11.2011

X R 0009/11 (Fundamental violation of Article 113 EPC/KUREHA CORPORATION) of 7.12.2012

X R 0010/11 () of 9.11.2011

X R 0011/11 (Petition clearly unallowable) of 14.11.2011

X R 0013/11 (Petition for review/VECTURA) of 20.4.2012

X R 0014/11 (Objection under Rule 106 EPC/Celanese International) of 5.7.2012

X R 0015/11 (Fundamental violation of Article 113 EPC/IVIS TECHNOLOGIES) of 13.5.2013

X R 0016/11 () of 23.3.2012

X R 0017/11 () of 19.3.2012

X R 0018/11 () of 22.11.2012

X R 0019/11 () of 2.10.2012

X R 0021/11 (Relevanter Antrag nicht entschieden/BAYER) of 15.6.2012

X R 0003/12 () of 29.8.2012

X R 0004/12 (Violation fondamentale allÃ©guÃ©e de l'article 113(1) CBE) of 20.12.2012

X R 0006/12 () of 18.1.2013

X R 0007/12 () of 6.12.2013

X R 0011/12 (Right to be heard in oral proceedings) of 19.7.2013

X R 0012/12 (Antrag auf ÃberprÃ¼fung/DEUTSCHE SISI-WERKE) of 14.1.2013

X R 0013/12 () of 14.11.2012

X R 0014/12 (Petition for review/Hydro-QuÃ©bec-) of 25.10.2013

X R 0015/12 (Violation fondamentale allÃ©guÃ©e de l'article 113(1) CBE) of 11.3.2013

X R 0016/12 () of 15.11.2013

X R 0017/12 () of 8.7.2013

X R 0018/12 (Petition for review/Shimano) of 10.12.2013

X R 0019/12 (Ablehnung wegen Besorgnis der Befangenheit) of 25.4.2014

X R 0001/13 (Petition for review/NTT) of 17.6.2013

X R 0002/13 () of 10.6.2013

X R 0003/13 () of 30.1.2014

X R 0005/13 (Fundamental violation of Article 113 EPC) of 10.2.2014

X R 0006/13 (Fundamental violation of Article 113 EPC/APTALIS PHARMA) of 22.11.2013

X R 0009/13 (Fundamental violation of Article 113 EPC) of 10.2.2014

X R 0010/13 (Fundamental violation of Article 113 EPC) of 10.2.2014

X R 0011/13 (Fundamental violation of Article 113 EPC) of 10.2.2014

X R 0012/13 (Fundamental violation of Article 113 EPC) of 10.2.2014

X R 0013/13 (Fundamental violation of Article 113 EPC) of 10.2.2014

X R 0015/13 (Petition for review/LADYBIRD) of 18.10.2013

X R 0016/13 () of 8.12.2014

X R 0001/14 () of 21.1.2015