an elected Office, if the applicant has elected a State designated pursuant to letter (a).
If the Euro-PCT application is published in another language, a translation into one of the official languages shall be filed with the European Patent Office, which shall publish it. Subject to Article 67, paragraph 3, the provisional protection under Article 67, paragraphs 1 and Article 67, paragraphs 2, shall be effective from the date of that publication.
The Euro-PCT application shall be treated as a European patent application and shall be considered as comprised in the state of the art under Article 54, paragraph 3, if the conditions laid down in paragraph 3 or 4 and in the Implementing Regulations are fulfilled.
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A supplementary European search report shall be drawn up in respect of any Euro-PCT application under paragraph 5. The Administrative Council may decide that the supplementary search report is to be dispensed with or that the search fee is to be reduced.
See decision of the Administrative Council CA/D 10/05 of 27.10.2005 (OJ EPO 2005, 548) on reducing the fee for the supplementary European search report for international applications for which the international search report is drawn up by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the Japan Patent Office, the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the Chinese Intellectual Property Office, the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Russian Federation) or IP Australia (applicable to all international applications filed on or after 01.07.2005).
See decision of the Administrative Council CA/D 11/09 of 28.10.2009 (OJ EPO 2009, 594) dispensing with the supplementary European search report in the case of an international application where the international search report or supplementary international search report was drawn up by the European Patent Office.
See Articles 2 and 4(3) of the Decision of the Administrative Council CA/D 12/15 of 16 December 2015 amending Article 2 of the Rules relating to Fees and adjusting the amount of the reduction in the fee for the supplementary European search where the international or supplementary international search report was drawn up by one of the European International Searching Authorities (Austrian Patent Office, Finnish Patent and Registration Office, Spanish Patent and Trademark Office, Swedish Patent and Registration Office, Nordic Patent Institute); this decision is applicable to international applications filed up to and including 30.06.2016 where the fee for the supplementary European search is paid on or after 01.04.2016.
See decision of the Administrative Council CA/D 8/15 of 16.12.2015 (OJ EPO 2016, A2) reducing the fee for the supplementary European search where the international search report or supplementary international search report was drawn up by the Austrian Patent Office, the Finnish Patent and Registration Office, the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office, the Swedish Patent and Registration Office, the Nordic Patent Institute or the Visegrad Patent Institute; this decision is applicable to international applications filed up to and including 31.03.2020 where the fee for the supplementary European search is paid on or after 01.07.2016.
See decision of the Administrative Council CA/D 9/17 of 28.06.2017 (OJ EPO 2017, A57) reducing the fee for the supplementary European search where the international search report or supplementary international search report was drawn up by the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office; the decision is applicable to international applications filed as from 08.03.2017, up to and including 31.03.2020, for which the international search report or supplementary international search report was drawn up by the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office and where the fee for a supplementary European search is paid on or after 01.07.2017.
Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/2016/e/ar153.html
Date retrieved: 24 November 2017
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