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

(1)

In respect of an international application under Article 153, the applicant shall perform the following acts within thirty-one months from the date of filing of the application or, if priority has been claimed, from the priority date:

supply, where applicable, the translation of the international application required under Article 153, paragraph 4;

(b)

specify the application documents, as originally filed or as amended, on which the European grant procedure is to be based;

(c)

pay the filing fee provided for in Article 78, paragraph 2;

(d)[ 176 ], [ 177 ]

pay the designation fee if the period under Rule 39 has expired earlier;

(e)

pay the search fee, where a supplementary European search report has to be drawn up;

(f)

file the request for examination provided for in Article 94, if the period under Rule 70, paragraph 1, has expired earlier;

(g)

pay the renewal fee in respect of the third year provided for in Article 86, paragraph 1, if the fee has fallen due earlier under Rule 51, paragraph 1;

(h)

file, where applicable, the certificate of exhibition referred to in Article 55, paragraph 2, and Rule 25.

(2)

The Examining Division shall be competent to take decisions of the European Patent Office under Article 25, paragraph 2(a) PCT.

[ Art. 35 150 153 R. 10 160 163 ]

See notice from the EPO of 21.03.2013 (OJ EPO 2013, 156).

See decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 4/08 (Annex I).

See opinion of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 4/98 (Annex I).

Amended by decision of the Administrative Council CA/D 4/08 of 21.10.2008 (OJ EPO 2008, 513), which entered into force on 01.04.2009.

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/2016/e/r159.html

Date retrieved: 17 May 2021

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EPC Articles

X A.18 EPC Examining Divisions

X A.35 EPC Voting rules

X A.55 EPC Non-prejudicial disclosures

X A.78 EPC Requirements of a European patent application

X A.79 EPC Designation of Contracting States

X A.86 EPC Renewal fees for the European patent application

X A.94 EPC Examination of the European patent application

X A.150 EPC Application of the Patent Cooperation Treaty

X A.153 EPC The European Patent Office as designated Office or elected Office

EPC Implementing Rules

X Part IX Implementing Regulations to Part X of the Convention

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

X R.25 EPC Certificate of exhibition

X R.39 EPC Designation fees

X R.51 EPC Payment of renewal fees

X R.70 EPC Request for examination

X R.160 EPC Consequences of non-fulfilment of certain requirements

X R.162 EPC Claims incurring fees

X R.163 EPC Examination of certain formal requirements by the European Patent Office

X R.165 EPC The Euro-PCT application as conflicting application under Article 54, paragraph 3

EPC Rules relating to Fees

X A. 2 Rfees EPC Fees provided for in the Convention and in the Implementing Regulations

EPO Guidelines - A Formalities Examination

X GL A III 11.2.5 Euro-PCT applications entering the European phase

X GL A III 11.3.9 Euro-PCT applications entering the European phase before 1 April 2009

X GL A III 12.2 Time limit for payment of extension and validation fees

X GL A III 13.1 Payment of fees

X GL A III 13.2 Additional fee (if application documents comprise more than thirty-five pages)

X GL A IV 4.3 Availability of deposited biological material to expert only

X GL A X 5.2.1 Filing fee and search fee

X GL A X 5.2.4 Renewal fees

X GL A X 9.3.1 Reduction of the search fee for a supplementary European search

EPO Guidelines - B Search

X GL B II 4.3.3 Application documents for the supplementary European search report

X GL B III 3.3.2 Specific rules applicable to Euro-PCT applications

X GL B VI 4.1.2 Published international applications (WO) as "E" documents

X GL B XI 2 Basis of the search opinion

EPO Guidelines - C Procedureal Aspects of Substantive Examination

X GL C II 1.2 Euro-PCT applications

X GL C III 1.3 Euro-PCT applications – Erroneous elements filed under Rule 20.5 bis PCT

EPO Guidelines - E General Procedural Matters

X GL E VIII 3.1.3 Form of the request and applicable time limit

X GL E IX 2.1.1 Requirements for entry into the European phase

X GL E IX 2.1.2 Initial processing and formal examination; copy of the international application

X GL E IX 2.1.3 Translation of the international application

X GL E IX 2.1.4 Filing fee, designation fee, request for examination and search fee

X GL E IX 2.2 Instructions in Chapter A‑II ("Filing of applications and examination on filing")

X GL E IX 2.3.1 Representation, address for correspondence

X GL E IX 2.3.2 Physical requirements

X GL E IX 2.3.5.3 Restoration of priority

X GL E IX 2.3.11 Designation fee

X GL E IX 2.3.12 Renewal fees

X GL E IX 2.4.1 Divisional applications

X GL E IX 2.4.3 Certificate of exhibition

X GL E IX 2.5.1 Publication of the international application

X GL E IX 2.5.2 Request for examination

X GL E IX 2.8 Early processing

X GL E IX 2.9.1 Review by the EPO under Art. 25 PCT

X GL E IX 4.3 Substantive examination of a Euro-PCT application accompanied by an IPER

X GL E IX 4.3.3 Consideration of the contents of the IPER

EPO Guidelines - F The European Patent Application

X GL F II 4.3 Background art

EPO Guidelines - G Patentability

X GL G IV 5.2 Euro-PCT applications

EPO Guidelines - H Amendments and Corrections

X GL H II 2.1 Before receipt of the search report – Rule 137(1)

EPO PCT GL - C Procedureal Aspects Chapter II

X GL-PCT C VI 2 Time limit for international preliminary examination

EPO Guide for Applicants, part II Int. - C The EPO as ISA and SISA

X GA C4.1.9 4.1.9.

X GA C5.1.3 5.1.3.

X GA C5.1.4 5.1.4.

X GA C5.1.5 5.1.5.

X GA C5.1.7 5.1.7.

X GA C5.2.1 5.2.1.

X GA C5.2.2 5.2.2.

X GA C5.3.2 5.3.2.

X GA C5.4.1 5.4.1.

X GA C5.5.1 5.5.1.

X GA C5.5.1.2 5.5.1.2

X GA C5.9.2 5.9.2.

X GA C5.9.4 5.9.4.

X GA C5.9.4.2 5.9.4.2

X GA C5.9.4.4 5.9.4.4

X GA C5.10.2 5.10.2.

X GA C5.11.1 5.11.1.

X GA C5.12.3 5.12.3.

X GA C5.13.6 5.13.6.

X GA C5.14.2 5.14.2.

X GA C5.15 5.15

X GA C5.15.2 5.15.2.

X GA C5.18 5.18

PCT Articles

X A.25 PCT Review by Designated Offices

Offical Journal of the EPO

X OJ EPO SE 3/2020, p1 - Rules relating to Fees of 20 October 1977 as adopted by decision of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation of 7 December 2006 and as last amended by decision of the Administrative Council of [..]

X OJ EPO 2020, A120 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 22 October 2020 concerning the procedures and safeguards which apply under the EPC and the PCT in the event of outages of means of electronic filing and other online services

X OJ EPO 2020, A81 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 14 June 2020 concerning the applicability of new Rule 20.5 bis PCT on the correction of erroneous filings in proceedings before the EPO

X OJ EPO 2020, A75 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 29 May 2020 concerning the temporary suspension of the application of Rule 51(2) of the European Patent Convention with respect to the additional fee for belated payment of a [..]

X OJ EPO 2020, A44 - Decision of the Vice-President Legal and International Affairs of the European Patent Office (Directorate-General 5) dated 21 April 2020 concerning the conditions for participating in the pilot project for Online Filing 2.0

X OJ EPO 2020, A33 - Guidance for the payment of fees, expenses and prices applicable as from 1 April 2020 [ 1 ]

X OJ EPO 2020, A3 - Decision of the Administrative Council of 12 December 2019 amending Articles 2 and 7 of the Rules relating to Fees ( CA/D 12/19 )

X OJ EPO SE 4/2019, p32 - Annex A.2 to the ADA - Information from the EPO concerning the automatic debiting procedure

X OJ EPO SE 4/2019, p22 - Annex A.1 to the ADA - Arrangements for the automatic debiting procedure (AAD) [ 1 ]

X OJ EPO SE 3/2019, p1 - Rules relating to Fees of 20 October 1977 as adopted by decision of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation of 7 December 2006 and as last amended by decision of the Administrative Council of [..]

X OJ EPO 2019, A29 - Guidance for the payment of fees, expenses and prices applicable as from 1 April 2019 [ 1 ]

X OJ EPO 2018, A32 - Guidance for the payment of fees, expenses and prices applicable as from 1 April 2018 [ 1 ]

X OJ EPO 2018, A4 - Decision of the Administrative Council of 13 December 2017 amending Articles 2 and 14 of the Rules relating to Fees (CA/D 17/17)

X OJ EPO SE 5/2017, p43 - Annex A.2 to the ADA - Information from the EPO concerning the automatic debiting procedure

X OJ EPO SE 5/2017, p22 - Annex A.1 to the ADA - Arrangements for the automatic debiting procedure (AAD) [ 1 ]

X OJ EPO SE 5/2017, p2 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 27 September 2017 concerning revision of the Arrangements for deposit accounts and their annexes

X OJ EPO 2017, A86 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 5 July 2017 concerning the filing and processing of third-party observations under Article 115 EPC

X OJ EPO 2017, A74 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 7 July 2017 concerning updated EPA/EPO/OEB Form 1200 (Entry into the European phase)

X OJ EPO 2017, A4 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 12 December 2016 concerning the use of smart cards by persons not resident in an EPC contracting state

X OJ EPO 2013, 542 - Notice from the European Patent Officedated18October2013 concerningthefilingof sequence listings

X OJ EPO 2013, 156 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 21 February 2013 concerning the request for early processing

X OJ EPO 2011, 480 - Decision of the Legal Board of Appeal dated 1 September 2010 J 18/09

X OJ EPO 2011, 376 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 28 April 2011 concerning the filing of sequence listings

X OJ EPO 2009, 603 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 2 November 2009 concerning the re-introduction of a grace period for the payment of extension fees

X OJ EPO 2009, 3-suppl - ARRANGEMENTS FOR DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS (ADA) AND THEIR ANNEXES

Case Law Book: I Patentability

X CLR I C 2.4.4 PCT applications as state of the art

Case Law Book: VI Rules Common to all Proceedings

X CLR VI 3 Competence of the EPO acting as designated or elected Office

Case Law of the Enlarged Board

X G 0004/98 (Designation fees) of 27.11.2000

X G 0004/08 (Language of the proceedings/MERIAL) of 16.2.2010

General Case Law

X J 0018/09 () of 1.9.2010

X J 0004/10 (Registration as co-applicant/KOMIPHARM) of 15.3.2012

X J 0018/12 () of 15.5.2013