Written confirmation
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If you file documents by telegram, telex or fax, you must supply written confirmation reproducing their contents and complying with the EPC Implementing Regulations within a non-extendable period of one month if invited to do so by the EPO department charged with the procedure. If you fail to comply with this invitation in due time, the telegram, telex or fax is deemed not to have been received.
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OJ 1992, 299, 306
Guid. A-IX, 2.5
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The EPO normally requires written confirmation only if:
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the application, the designation of a contracting state or a claim to priority is withdrawn in the document;
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(b)
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the document or drawings in question alter or replace application or patent documents; or
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the documents so communicated are of inferior quality.
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You are requested to indicate clearly on regulation hard-copy documents that they constitute "confirmation of a document filed on ... by telegram/telex/fax".
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C. Preparing and filing a European patent application
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