EUROPEAN PATENT CONVENTION:Implementing Regulations: PART II - IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS TO PART II OF THE CONVENTION, Chapter I - Procedure where the applicant or proprietor is not entitled, Rule 14 - Limitation of the option to withdraw the European patent application

Rule 14 - Limitation of the option to withdraw the European patent application

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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

Implementing Regulations

PART II - IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS TO PART II OF THE CONVENTION

PART I - IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS TO PART I OF THE CONVENTION

PART III - IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS TO PART III OF THE CONVENTION

Chapter I - Procedure where the applicant or proprietor is not entitled

Chapter II - Organisation of the European Patent Office

Rule 14 - Limitation of the option to withdraw the European patent application

Rule 15 - Filing of a new European patent application by the person entitled to apply

Rule 14 15

Limitation of the option to withdraw the European patent application

As from the time when a third party proves to the European Patent Office that he has initiated proceedings concerning entitlement and up to the date on which the European Patent Office resumes the proceedings for grant, neither the European patent application nor the designation of any Contracting State may be withdrawn.

15 See decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 3/92 (Annex I).

Art. 61, 79