Guide for Applicants - Part 2:How to get a European patent: D. The EPO as an International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA) - PCT Chapter II, I. General, EPO was ISA, Choice of applicant

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

D. The EPO as an International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA) - PCT Chapter II

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

E. Euro-PCT procedure before the EPO as a designated (PCT Chapter I) or elected (PCT Chapter II) Office

I. General

II. The international preliminary examination procedure before the EPO as an IPEA

EPO was ISA

Choice of applicant

What are the legal consequences of not filing a translation?

Choice of applicant

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Where several IPEAs are competent in relation to a particular application, the applicant may choose. Here, it must be considered that where the EPO as IPEA has drawn up the IPRP Chapter II the examination fee due in the European phase is reduced by 50% if examination is requested for the invention for which the IPRP Chapter II was drawn up (see point 255 ff).

R. 35.2, 59.1 PCT