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R.80 EPC Amendment of the European patent

Without prejudice to Rule 138, the description, claims and drawings may be amended, provided that the amendments are occasioned by a ground for opposition under Article 100, even if that ground has not been invoked by the opponent.

[ Art. 101 105 123 R. 89 137 ]

See decisions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 1/99, G 3/14 (Annex I).

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/2016/e/r80.html

Date retrieved: 17 May 2021

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EPC Articles

X A.100 EPC Grounds for opposition

X A.101 EPC Examination of the opposition – Revocation or maintenance of the European patent

X A.105 EPC Intervention of the assumed infringer

X A.123 EPC Amendments

EPC Implementing Rules

X Chapter I Opposition procedure

X R.89 EPC Intervention of the assumed infringer

X R.137 EPC Amendment of the European patent application

X R.138 EPC Different claims, description and drawings for different States

EPO Guidelines Foreword

X GL FOREWORD 2.1 Overview

EPO Guidelines - D Opposition and Limitation/Revocation Procedures

X GL D VI 1 General remarks

EPO Guidelines - H Amendments and Corrections

X GL H II 3.1 Amendments in reply to the notice of opposition

X GL H II 3.2 Amendments not related to the grounds for opposition

X GL H II 3.4 Insistence on unallowable amendments

X GL H III 4.1 Dealing with different texts in examination

X GL H III 4.2 Different text in respect of the state of the art according to Art. 54(3) EPC and Art. 54(4) EPC 1973

X GL H III 4.3.2 Different texts where a transfer of the patent in respect of certain designated states takes place in opposition proceedings

X GL H III 4.4 Different texts where national rights of earlier date exist

X GL H III 4.5 Opposition proceedings where the claims as granted are different for different contracting states

X GL H V 7 Changes in claim category in opposition

X GL H VI 2.1.1.1 Errors in the description, claims and drawings

Offical Journal of the EPO

X OJ EPO SE 2/2021, p117 - ANNEX 1

X OJ EPO SE 2/2021, p49 - IV. PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE DEPARTMENTS OF FIRST INSTANCE

X OJ EPO SE 4/2020, p73 - V. PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE BOARDS OF APPEAL

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

X OJ EPO 2017, A50 - Interlocutory decision of the Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.09 dated 17 October 2016 - T 437/14

X OJ EPO 2013, 508 - Decision of Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.09 dated 6 June 2012 T 1843/09

X OJ EPO 2013, 42 - Decision of Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.04 dated 31 May 2012 T 1242/06 3.3.04

X OJ EPO 2011, 542 - Decision of Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.02 dated 27 October 2010 T 1635/09

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

X CLR II E 2.3.2 Cut-off point

X CLR II E 4.3 Correction of errors in the description, claims and drawings after grant, and in opposition proceedings

Case Law Book: IV Divisional Applications

X CLR IV C 4.3 Concept of "in due time"

X CLR IV C 5.1.1 Principles

X CLR IV C 5.1.2 Amendments occasioned by national prior rights

X CLR IV C 5.1.3 Time frame for filing amendments

X CLR IV C 5.1.6 Applicability of Rule 43(2) EPC in opposition proceedings

X CLR IV C 5.1.9 Removal of error (in claim) in opposition proceedings – Rule 139 EPC

Case Law Book: V Priority

X CLR V A 4.1.1 Legal basis

X CLR V A 4.11.3.E Broadening of claims considered by the opposition division

X CLR V A 4.12.3 Response to objections

X CLR V A 4.12.4 Converging or diverging versions of claims

Case Law of the Enlarged Board

X G 0001/99 (Reformatio in peius / 3M) of 2.4.2001

X G 0003/14 () of 24.3.2015

General Case Law

X T 0936/04 (Double patenting/CONOCO) of 24.4.2008

X T 0700/05 () of 18.9.2008

X T 0867/05 () of 15.10.2009

X T 0978/05 () of 15.7.2008

X T 1321/05 () of 14.5.2008

X T 1586/05 () of 6.2.2008

X T 0385/06 () of 6.3.2008

X T 0514/06 () of 11.2.2009

X T 1015/06 (Water-borne coating composition/ORICA AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.) of 30.4.2009

X T 1140/06 () of 13.5.2009

X T 1204/06 (Purification of phosphatidylserine/CHEMI) of 8.4.2008

X T 1242/06 (Tomatoes II/STATE OF ISRAEL) of 31.5.2012

X T 0293/07 (Cerebrale IschÃ¤mien/EHRENREICH et al.) of 24.7.2008

X T 0321/07 () of 23.10.2008

X T 0777/07 (Methanol synthesis/MITSUBISHI) of 25.2.2011

X T 0993/07 (Field device management system/FISCHER-ROSEMOUNT) of 20.5.2010

X T 1533/07 () of 6.10.2009

X T 1668/07 () of 27.10.2011

X T 1685/07 () of 4.8.2010

X T 1898/07 (Interferon Formulations/BIOGEN) of 17.6.2010

X T 0235/08 () of 8.4.2009

X T 1172/08 (Method for determining T-cell epitopes/GENENCOR) of 7.10.2011

X T 1926/08 () of 3.5.2011

X T 1022/09 () of 27.10.2011

X T 1843/09 () of 6.6.2012

X T 0340/10 () of 25.9.2012

X T 0759/10 () of 22.3.2012

X T 1084/10 () of 10.7.2012

X T 1471/10 () of 11.6.2014

X T 1693/10 () of 9.7.2015

X T 0433/11 (ErkÃ¤ltungskrankheiten/PANDALIS) of 24.5.2012

X T 0605/11 (Cholesterol removal/PRONOVA) of 27.5.2014

X T 0657/11 () of 8.11.2013

X T 0750/11 (BASF SE / INVISTA Technologies) of 3.3.2016

X T 2526/11 (Generation of a silane based coating/NANOGATE) of 9.1.2013

X T 0428/12 () of 26.6.2014

X T 0863/12 (EdelmetallprÃ¤parate/Heraeus) of 23.9.2015

X T 1538/12 () of 24.3.2017

X T 1689/12 () of 5.10.2016

X T 1848/12 () of 16.12.2016

X T 1954/12 (Recombinant vitamin K epoxide reductase/UNIVERSITY NORTH CAROLINA) of 27.10.2016

X T 2290/12 () of 13.10.2016

X T 2301/12 () of 22.11.2017

X T 0359/13 () of 22.11.2016

X T 0832/13 () of 25.6.2014

X T 1155/13 () of 7.5.2014

X T 1467/13 () of 6.6.2018

X T 1719/13 (Method for winding a filter media pack/BALDWIN) of 14.11.2017

X T 0407/14 (SynthÃ¨se de Fischer-Tropsch) of 20.9.2017

X T 1810/14 () of 12.12.2017

X T 2129/14 () of 1.6.2016

X T 0346/15 () of 13.9.2018

X T 1477/15 () of 23.2.2017