EUROPEAN PATENT CONVENTION: PART IX - SPECIAL AGREEMENTS, Article 149

Article 149 - Joint designation

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Table of Contents

Preface

European Patent Convention

Implementing Regulations

Protocol on Recognition

Protocol on Centralisation

Protocol on Privileges and Immunities

Protocol on the Staff Complement

Rules Relating to Fees

Annex I

Annex II

Alphabetical keyword index

EUROPEAN PATENT CONVENTION- Table of Contents

European Patent Convention

PART IX - SPECIAL AGREEMENTS

PART X - INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PURSUANT TO THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY

Article 149 - Joint designation

Article 148 - The European patent application as an object of property

Article 150 - Application of the Patent Cooperation Treaty

Article 149 101

Joint designation

(1) The group of Contracting States may provide that these States may only be designated jointly, and that the designation of one or some only of such States shall be deemed to constitute the designation of all the States of the group.

(2) Where the European Patent Office acts as a designated Office under Article 153, paragraph 1, paragraph 1 shall apply if the applicant has indicated in the international application that he wishes to obtain a European patent for one or more of the designated States of the group. The same shall apply if the applicant designates in the international application one of the Contracting States in the group, whose national law provides that the designation of that State shall have the effect of the application being for a European patent.

101 See the Treaty between the Swiss Confederation and the Principality of Liechtenstein on Patent Protection of 22.12.1978 (OJ EPO 1980, 407 ff).

Art. 3, 79, 156