Guidelines for Examination:PART C: CHAPTER V PRIORITY

Guidelines for Examination
PART C
CHAPTER V PRIORITY

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CHAPTER IV PATENTABILITY

CHAPTER IV PATENTABILITY

CHAPTER VI EXAMINATION PROCEDURE

CHAPTER VI EXAMINATION PROCEDURE

1. The right to priority

1.1 Filing date as effective date

1.2 Priority date as effective date

1.3 Validly claiming priority

1.4 First application

1.4a Subsequent application considered as first application

1.5 Multiple priorities

2. Determining priority dates

2.1 Examining the validity of a right to priority

2.2 The same invention

2.3 Priority claim not valid

2.4 Some examples of determining priority dates

2.4.1 Intermediate publication of the contents of the priority application:

2.4.2 Intermediate publication of another European application:

2.4.3 Multiple priorities claimed for different inventions in the application with an intermediate...

2.4.4 A situation in which it has to be checked whether the application from which priority is actually...

3. Claiming priority

3.1 General remarks

3.2 Declaration of priority

3.3 Copy of the previous application (priority document)

3.4 Translation of the previous application

3.5 Abandonment of priority claim