Where a European divisional application or a new European patent application filed under Article 61, paragraph 1, is published, any person may obtain inspection of the files of the earlier application before the publication of that application and without the consent of the applicant.
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After the publication of the European patent application, the files relating to the application and the resulting European patent may be inspected on request, subject to the restrictions laid down in the Implementing Regulations.
Amended by the Act revising the European Patent Convention of 29.11.2000.
See decision of the President of the EPO of 12.07.2007 concerning documents excluded from file inspection (Special edition No. 3 OJ EPO 2007, J.3), decision of the President of the EPO of 20.02.2019 on the inspection of files (OJ EPO 2019, A16) and decision of the President of the EPO of 20.02.2019 concerning online file inspection of documents contained in the file held by the EPO as receiving Office, International Searching Authority or Authority specified for supplementary search (OJ EPO 2019, A17).
Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/2016/e/ar128.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021
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