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

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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    
E. Euro-PCT procedure before the EPO as a designated (PCT Chapter I) or elected (PCT Chapter II)... D. The EPO as an International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA) - PCT Chapter II ANNEX I Terms and abbreviations

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


 
I. General

II. What must the applicant do to initiate the European phase?

III. Filing of other documents

IV. Review by the EPO as designated Office of Euro-PCT applications which fail in the international phase

V. Lack of unity

VI. Publication of the Euro-PCT application by the EPO

VII. Divisional applications

Index:How to get a European patentHow to get a European patentD. The EPO as an International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA) - PCT Chapter IIANNEX I Terms and abbreviations

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