EUROPEAN PATENT CONVENTION:Implementing Regulations: PART I - IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS TO PART I OF THE CONVENTION, Chapter II - Organisation of the European Patent Office, Rule 8

Rule 8 - Patent classification

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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 I - IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS TO PART I OF THE CONVENTION

IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS TO THE CONVENTION ON THE GRANT OF EUROPEAN PATENTS

PART II - IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS TO PART II OF THE CONVENTION

Chapter II - Organisation of the European Patent Office

Chapter I - Languages of the European Patent Office

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

Rule 8 - Patent classification

Rule 7 - Legal authenticity of the translation of the European patent application

Rule 9 - Allocation of duties to the departments of the first instance

Rule 8

Patent classification

(1) The European Patent Office shall use:

(a) the classification referred to in Article 1 of the European Convention on the International Classification of Patents for Invention of 19 December 1954 until the entry into force of the Strasbourg Agreement concerning the International Patent Classification of 24 March 1971;

(b) the classification referred to in Article 1 of the aforementioned Strasbourg Agreement, after the entry into force of that Agreement.

(2) The classification referred to in paragraph 1 is hereinafter referred to as the international classification.

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