Guidelines for Examination:PART A: CHAPTER II FILING OF APPLICATIONS AND EXAMINATION ON FILING, 1. Where and how applications may be filed, 1.4 Filing of applications by other means

Guidelines for Examination
PART A
CHAPTER II FILING OF APPLICATIONS AND EXAMINATION ON FILING
1. Where and how applications may be filed
1.4 Filing of applications by other means

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PART A
CHAPTER II FILING OF APPLICATIONS AND EXAMINATION ON FILING
1. Where and how applications may be filed

1.3 Filing of applications in electronic form

1.5 Subsequent filing of documents

1.4	Filing of applications by other means

As of 1.1.2003 European patent applications may no longer be filed with the EPO on diskette accompanied by a paper version prepared by means of the EP-EASY software (see the Notice from the EPO dated 1 October 2002, OJ 10/2002, 515). This applies also to the filing of European patent applications with the filing offices of Belgium (BE), Finland (FI), France (FR), Sweden (SE), Switzerland (CH) and the United Kingdom (UK).

The filing of European patent applications by other means such as e-mail is at present not allowed (see also the Notice dated 12 September 2000, OJ 10/2000, 458).