Guidelines for Examination
PART E
CHAPTER X DECISIONS
4. Written form of decisions
4.2 Order
 

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PART E
CHAPTER X DECISIONSCHAPTER X DECISIONS
4. Written form of decisions4. Written form of decisions
  4.1 General remarks4.1 General remarks     4.3 Facts and submissions4.3 Facts and submissions  
 

4.2

Order

 

The order may be, for example, as follows:

 

"The European patent application ... is hereby refused pursuant to Art. 97(1) EPC.";

 

"The opposition to the European patent ... is hereby rejected."; or

 

"The request for restitutio in integrum is hereby rejected".