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
III. Filing of other documents II. What must the applicant do to initiate the European phase? IV. Review by the EPO as designated Office of Euro-PCT applications which fail in the international phase
Certificate of exhibition Non-observance of the requirement to file the designation of inventor Claims for priority and priority documents

Certificate of exhibition


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If the certificate of exhibition has not yet been filed for the international application, this may still be done within 31 months of the earliest priority date.

Art. 55(2) EPC

R. 23, 107(1)(h) EPC



 
Index:How to get a European patentIII. Filing of other documentsNon-observance of the requirement to file the designation of inventorClaims for priority and priority documents

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