Any document which refers to an oral disclosure, a use or any other means of disclosure which took place before the date of filing of the European patent application shall be mentioned in the European search report, together with an indication of the date of publication, if any, of the document and the date of the non-written disclosure.
See information from the EPO concerning the Annex to the European search report (OJ EPO 1982, 448 ff; 1984, 381; 1999, 90) and OJ EPO 2015, A86: Pilot programme on search strategies.
Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/2016/e/r61.html
Date retrieved: 30 December 2018
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