Guide for Applicants - Part 2:How to get a European patent: B. The EPO as a PCT receiving Office, How and where to file if the EPO is receiving Office, Filing further documents

Guide for Applicants - Part 2
How to get a European patent

How to get a European patent

A. General overview

B. The EPO as a PCT receiving Office

C. The EPO as an International Searching Authority

D. The EPO as an International Preliminary Examining Authority

E. Euro-PCT procedure before the EPO as a designated or elected Office

Annexes

Guide for Applicants - Part 2

B. The EPO as a PCT receiving Office

C. The EPO as an International Searching Authority (ISA) - PCT Chapter I

How and where to file if the EPO is receiving Office

Where may an international application be filed?

Filing further documents

Filing further documents

19	After an international application has been filed other documents may be filed in any proceedings before the EPO direct, by post or - with the exception of authorisations and priority documents - by fax at the EPO filing offices.

OJ 2005, 41, 44

In the case of loss or delay, the EPO accepts evidence of mailing a document only if it was mailed via the postal authorities or if one of the following delivery services was used instead: Chronopost, Deutsche Post Express, DHL, Federal Express, LTA, TNT, SkyNet or UPS.

R. 82.1(d) PCT R. 82.1(e) PCT

OJ 2003, 283