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

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

D / E

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

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