Guide for Applicants - Part 2:How to get a European patent: E. Euro-PCT procedure before the EPO as a designated (PCT Chapter I) or elected (PCT Chapter II)..., II. What must the applicant do to initiate the European phase?, A supplementary European search is performed

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

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

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

A supplementary European search is performed

No supplementary European search is performed

Information on supplementary European search

A supplementary European search is performed

235	In the following cases no dispensation applies and the EPO will draw up a supplementary European search report on entry into the European phase:

Art. 157(3)(b) EPC
OJ 1979, 368

OJ 1981, 5

OJ 1994, 6, 691

OJ 2000, 321

OJ 2005, 5, 422, 435

for any international application filed on or after 1 April 2005 for which the international search was performed by the Finnish patent office;

for any international application filed on or after 1 July 2005 for which the international search was performed by the Austrian, Spanish or Swedish patent office;

for any international application for which the international search was performed by any ISA not located in an EPC contracting state. At present these ISAs are the patent offices of Australia, Canada, China, Japan, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Korea and the USA.