R.36 EPC European divisional applications

(1)[ 50 ],[ 51 ]

The applicant may file a divisional application relating to any pending earlier European patent application.

A divisional application shall be filed in the language of the proceedings for the earlier application. If the latter was not in an official language of the European Patent Office, the divisional application may be filed in the language of the earlier application; a translation into the language of the proceedings for the earlier application shall then be filed within two months of the filing of the divisional application. The divisional application shall be filed with the European Patent Office in Munich, The Hague or Berlin.

(3)

The filing fee and search fee shall be paid within one month of filing the divisional application. If the filing fee or search fee is not paid in due time, the application shall be deemed to be withdrawn.

The designation fee shall be paid within six months of the date on which the European Patent Bulletin mentions the publication of the European search report drawn up in respect of the divisional application. Rule 39, paragraphs 2 and 3, shall apply.

[ Art. 14 76 78 79 94 ]

See decisions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 1/05, G 1/06, G 1/09 (Annex I).

Amended by decision of the Administrative Council CA/D 15/13 of 16.10.2013 (OJ EPO 2013, 501), entered into force on 01.04.2014.

See also notice from the EPO, OJ EPO 2014, A22 (Corr. OJ EPO 2014, A109).

Amended by decision of the Administrative Council CA/D 2/09 of 25.03.2009 (OJ EPO 2009, 296), entered into force on 01.04.2010.

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

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/2016/e/r36.html

Date retrieved: 30 December 2018

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EPC Articles

X A.14 EPC Languages of the European Patent Office, European patent applications and other documents

X A.76 EPC European divisional applications

X A.78 EPC Requirements of a European patent application

X A.79 EPC Designation of Contracting States

X A.93 EPC Publication of the European patent application

X A.94 EPC Examination of the European patent application

EPC Implementing Rules

X Chapter I Filing of the European patent application

X R.39 EPC Designation fees

X R.57 EPC Examination as to formal requirements

X R.135 EPC Further processing

EPO Guidelines - A Formalities Examination

X GL A III 11.2.1 Designation fee; time limits

X GL A III 11.3.5 Request for grant form

X GL A III 13.1 Payment of fees

X GL A III 14 Translation of the application

X GL A IV 1.1 General remarks

X GL A IV 1.1.1 Pendency of the earlier application

X GL A IV 1.3.1 Where and how to file a divisional application?

X GL A IV 1.3.3 Language requirements

X GL A IV 1.3.4 Designation of contracting states

X GL A IV 1.4.1 Filing, search and designation fee(s)

X GL A VII 1.3 European divisional applications; Art. 61 applications

X GL A X 5.2.1 Filing fee and search fee

X GL A X 5.2.2 Examination fee and designation fee

X GL A X 9.2.2 Reduction of the filing fee

EPO Guidelines - C Procedureal Aspects of Substantive Examination

X GL C II 1.3 Invention to be examined

X GL C III 3.2 Excision of other inventions; filing divisional applications

X GL C IX 1.1 General remarks

EPO Guidelines - E General Procedural Matters

X GL E VIII 2 Further processing

X GL E IX 2.4.1 Divisional applications

EPO Guidelines - F The European Patent Application

X GL F V 7.1 General principles

X GL F V 9.1 International applications without supplementary search

EPO Guide for Applicants, part II Int. - E Euro-PCT procedure before the EPO as designated or elected Office

X GA E XVIII XVIII.

Offical Journal of the EPO

X OJ EPO SE 3/2018, p2 - BOARDS OF APPEAL AND ENLARGED BOARD OF APPEAL CASE LAW 2017

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 2014, A109 - Corrigendum, OJ EPO February 2014 (A22)

X OJ EPO 2014, A22 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 8 January 2014 concerning European divisional applications – amendment of Rules 36, 38, and 135 EPC and Article 2(1) RFees

X OJ EPO 2013, 16 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 3 December 2012 on calculation of the time limit under Rule 36(1) EPC

X OJ EPO 2012, 516 - Decision of the Legal Board of Appeal dated 25 November 2011 J 4/11 3.1.01

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

X OJ EPO 2011, 336 - Decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal dated 27 September 2010 G 1/09

X OJ EPO 2011, 273 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 11 March 2011 concerning identification of the examining division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued (Rule [..]

X OJ EPO 2011, 110 - Decision of the President of the European Patent Office dated 9 December 2010 concerning the information given in the European Patent Register

X OJ EPO 2010, 568 - Decision of the Administrative Council of 26 October 2010 amending Rule 36 of the Implementing Regulations to the European Patent Convention (CA/D 16/10)

X OJ EPO 2010, 406 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 29 June 2010 concerning communications under amended Rule 161 EPC

X OJ EPO 2010, 100 - Decision of the Legal Board of Appeal dated 27 May 2009 J 2/08 3.1.01

X OJ EPO 2009, 601 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 26 October 2009 on the establishment of the date of the Examining Division's first communication for calculation of the time limit under Rule 36(1)(a) EPC as from 1 April 2010

X OJ EPO 2009, 486 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 14 September 2009 concerning the filing of a certified copy of an earlier application to which reference is made

X OJ EPO 2009, 481 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 20 August 2009 concerning amended Rule 36(1) and (2) EPC (European divisional applications) and consequential amendments to Rules 57(a) and 135(2) EPC

X OJ EPO 2009, 454 - Communication from the Enlarged Board of Appeal concerning case G 1/09

X OJ EPO 2009, 296 - Decision of the Administrative Council of 25 March 2009 amending the Implementing Regulations to the European Patent Convention (CA/D 2/09)

X OJ EPO 2008, 513 - Decision of the Administrative Council of 21 October 2008 amending the Implementing Regulations to the European Patent Convention (CA/D 4/08)

Case Law Book: II Conditions to be met by an Application

X CLR II B 6.1 of non-payment of a further search fee

X CLR II F 1 1.Introduction

X CLR II F 3.1.1 of earlier application entitled to file divisional application

X CLR II F 3.3 application to be filed with EPO

X CLR II F 3.4 of pending earlier application

X CLR II F 3.4.1 to Implementing Regulations

X CLR II F 3.4.2 of pending earlier application sets no time limit

X CLR II F 3.4.3 before the EPO

X CLR II F 3.4.5 after refusal of earlier application against which no appeal was filed

X CLR II F 3.4.6 after refusal of earlier application against which an appeal was filed

X CLR II F 3.4.8 after withdrawal of earlier application

X CLR II F 4.2.1 designation of all states designated in earlier application at the date of filing of divisional

X CLR II F 4.4 fee for a divisional application

Case Law Book: III Amendments

X CLR III E 3.1.1 of pendency when filing divisional application is not a time limit

X CLR III F 1 of filing and date of filing of a European patent application

Case Law Book: IV Divisional Applications

X CLR IV F 2.3.3 of the referred question for the underlying case

Case Law of the Enlarged Board

X G 0001/05 (Exclusion and objection/XXX) of 7.12.2006

X G 0001/06 (Sequences of divisionals/SEIKO) of 28.6.2007

X G 0001/09 (Pending application/SONY) of 27.9.2010

General Case Law

X J 0002/08 (Pending application/SONY) of 10.12.2010

X J 0018/09 () of 1.9.2010

X J 0019/10 (Divisional application/N.N.) of 17.5.2011

X J 0024/10 () of 15.4.2011

X J 0004/11 () of 25.11.2011

X J 0009/12 (Filing of a divisional application during stay of proceedings) of 28.6.2013

X J 0010/12 (Pendency of earlier patent application) of 13.5.2014

X J 0020/12 () of 18.3.2013

X J 0007/13 (Amount of the search fee payable for a divisional application - … of 7.10.2015

X J 0022/13 () of 1.9.2015

X J 0023/13 () of 30.3.2015

X T 2459/12 () of 17.10.2013