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Date retrieved: 17 May 2021
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EPO Guidelines - A Formalities Examination
XGL A V – Communications concerning formal deficiencies; amendment of application; correction of errors
XGL A VI – Publication of application; request for examination and transmission of the dossier to examining division
XGL A IX – Drawings This Chapter of the Guidelines deals with the requirements to be met by drawings contained in the application or patent. However, it should be noted that the comments on the provisions of Rule 49 apply generally to the [..]
XGL A XI – Inspection of files; communication of information contained in files; consultation of the European Patent Register; issuance of certified copies
EPO Guidelines - B Search
EPO Guidelines - C Procedureal Aspects of Substantive Examination
EPO Guidelines - D Opposition and Limitation/Revocation Procedures
XGL D VI – Procedure for the examination of the opposition (Oral proceedings: see E‑III ; taking and conservation of evidence: see E‑IV )
EPO Guidelines - E General Procedural Matters
XGL E I – I ntroduction Part E contains guidelines for those procedural steps in respect of the examination of European patent applications and patents which without major variations may, in so far as the EPC permits, occur at a number of stages [..]
XGL E VI – Examination by the EPO of its own motion; facts, evidence or grounds not submitted in due time; observations by third parties
XGL E VIII – Time limits, loss of rights, further and accelerated processing and re-establishment of rights
EPO Guidelines - F The European Patent Application
XGL F I – Introduction Apart from the requirements of patentability (novelty, inventive step, industrial application and exclusions from patentability), a European patent application must also satisfy a number of other requirements. These [..]
XGL F IIA1 – Annex 1 Checklist for considering the abstract (see F‑II, 2.5 ) In the following checklist, the abstractor should, after having studied the disclosure to be abstracted, place a check in the second column after the applicable terms [..]
XGL F IIA2 * ] Mainly based on Chapter I of the Annex to EEC Directive 80/181/EEC of 20.12.1979, as amended by EEC Directives 85/1/EEC of 18.12.1984, 89/617/EEC of 27.11.1989, 1999/103/EC of 24.01.2000 , 2009/3/EC of 11.03.2009 and Commission [..]
EPO Guidelines - G Patentability
EPO Guidelines - H Amendments and Corrections
XGL H I add to the application or patent subject-matter which was not disclosed in the application as originally filed ( Art. 123(2) )