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A.18 EPC Examining Divisions

(1)

The Examining Divisions shall be responsible for the examination of European patent applications.

An Examining Division shall consist of three technically qualified examiners. However, before a decision is taken on a European patent application, its examination shall, as a general rule, be entrusted to one member of the Examining Division. Oral proceedings shall be before the Examining Division itself. If the Examining Division considers that the nature of the decision so requires, it shall be enlarged by the addition of a legally qualified examiner. In the event of parity of votes, the vote of the Chairman of the Examining Division shall be decisive.

[ Art. 15 33 94 97 R. 10 11 70 159 ]

Amended by the Act revising the European Patent Convention of 29.11.2000.

See opinion of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 1/02 (Annex I).

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/2016/e/ar18.html

Date retrieved: 17 May 2021

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EPC Articles

X Chapter III The European Patent Office

X A.15 EPC Departments entrusted with the procedure

X A.33 EPC Competence of the Administrative Council in certain cases

X A.94 EPC Examination of the European patent application

X A.97 EPC Grant or refusal

EPC Implementing Rules

X R.10 EPC Responsibility of the Receiving Section and the Examining Division

X R.11 EPC Allocation of duties to the departments of first instance

X R.70 EPC Request for examination

X R.91 EPC Responsibility for proceedings

X R.159 EPC The European Patent Office as a designated or elected Office – Requirements for entry into the European phase

EPO Guidelines - A Formalities Examination

X GL A VI 2.4 Transmission of the dossier to the examining division

EPO Guidelines - B Search

X GL B I 2 Search division

X GL B II 1 Search and substantive examination

X GL B XI 7 No search opinion is issued

EPO Guidelines - C Procedureal Aspects of Substantive Examination

X GL C I 1 General remark

X GL C II 2 Allocation of the application

X GL C VIII 1 General remarks

X GL C VIII 4 Tasks of the other members of the examining division

X GL C VIII 7 Enlargement of the examining division; consultation of a legally qualified examiner

EPO Guidelines - E General Procedural Matters

X GL E III 1 General

X GL E III 5 Preparation of oral proceedings

X GL E IV 1.3 Taking of evidence

X GL E XIII 3.1 Composition

Offical Journal of the EPO

X OJ EPO SE 2/2021, p37 - III. RULES COMMON TO ALL PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE EPO

X OJ EPO 2017, A15 - Decision of Technical Board of Appeal 3.2.07 dated 27 July 2016 T 1691/15

X OJ EPO 2011, 624 - Decision of the Legal Board of Appeal dated 21 July 2011 J 25/10

Case Law Book: III Amendments

X CLR III K 1 Composition of the competent departments of first instance

X CLR III K 1.2 Examining division

Case Law Book: IV Divisional Applications

X CLR IV A 2 Responsibility for formalities examination

Case Law of the Enlarged Board

X G 0001/02 (Formalities officers' powers) of 22.1.2003

General Case Law

X J 0025/10 (Catheters having linear electrode arrays/MEDTRONIC VASCULAR) of 21.7.2011

X T 0211/05 () of 30.7.2009

X T 0689/05 (-Vienna Convention on the Law of TreatiesArt. 25, 28European … of 7.9.2010

X T 1088/11 () of 17.6.2016

X T 1142/12 () of 8.4.2014

X T 1033/16 (Cross-community invitation/ACCENTURE GLOBAL SERVICES) of 26.9.2016