000020360 000__ 05243cam\a22003495i\4500 000020360 001__ 20360 000020360 003__ SzGeWIPO 000020360 005__ 20210318104809.0 000020360 008__ 940402s1992\\\\au\\\\\\r\\\\u000\0\eng\d 000020360 035__ $$a(wipo)(CD )94/0496 000020360 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1158910367 000020360 040__ $$aSzGeWIPO$$beng$$erda$$cSzGeWIPO$$dCaBNVSL 000020360 043__ $$ae------ 000020360 084__ $$aG 941 EPO.C 1992 000020360 090__ $$c21854$$d21854 000020360 1102_ $$aEuropean Patent Office (EPO),$$eissuing body. 000020360 24510 $$aCase law of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office, 1987-1992 /$$cEuropean Patent Office (epo). 000020360 264_1 $$aVienna [Austria] :$$bEuropean Patent Office (EPO),$$c1992. 000020360 300__ $$a198 pages ;$$c[28] cm 000020360 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000020360 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia 000020360 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier 000020360 500__ $$aContents : Foreword; Reader's guide; 1. Patentability : A. Patentable inventions : 1. Technical nature of invention; 2. Medical methods; B. Exceptions to patentability : 1. Introduction; 2. Patentability of plants; 3. Patentability of animals; 4. Inventions contrary to ORDRE PUBLIC; C. Novelty : 1. Disclosed content of prior publications; 2. Availability to the public; 3. Chemical inventions and selection inventions; 4. Novelty of use; 5. Novelty of product-by-process claims; D. Inventive step : 1. Closest prior art; 2. Skilled person; 3. Proof of inventive step; 4. Intermediate products; 2. Conditions to be met by an application : A. Sufficiency of disclosure : 1. General principles; 2. Biotechnology; B. Claims : 1. Clarity; 2. Conciseness; 3. Claims supported by the description; 4. Interpretation of claims; 5. Wording of the claims; 6. Product-by-process claims; 7. Claims fees; C. Unity of invention : 1. Introduction; 2. General inventive concept; 3. Conditions for assessing unity of invention; 4. Plurality of inventions and a further search fee; 5. Dispensing with the imposition of a further search fee; 6. Consistency of description and claims; 3. Amendments : A. Article 123(2) EPC : 1. Content of the application as originally filed; 2. Divisional applications; 3. TESTS for the allowability of an amendment; B. Article 123(3) EPC : 1. Generalisation of a feature; 2. Moving features from preamble to characterising portion; 3. Change of claim category; C. Interrelation of Art. 123(2) and 123(3) EPC : 1. Cases of conflict; 2. Resolving the conflict in exceptional cases; D. Rule 88, second sentence, EPC : 1. Relation to Art. 123(2) EPC; 2. Obviousness of the error and the correction; 4. Priority : A. Identity of invention : 1. General remarks; 2. Error margins; 3. First application in a Paris Convention country; 4. Reproducible disclosure in the priority document; B. Limiting the extent of protection; C. Partial and multiple priorities; 5. Right to a European Patent; 6. Proceedings before the EPO : A. Rules common to all proceedings : general principles : 1. The principle of good faith; 2. Oral proceedings; 3. Right to present comments; 4. Time limits; 5. Re-establishment of rights; 6. Late submission; 7. Decisions of the EPO departments; 8. Requests; 9. Taking of evidence : general principles; 10. Withdrawal and abandonment of application or patent; 11. Further procedural questions; B. Preliminary and formalities examination : 1. Date of filing; 2. Correction of designation of States; 3. Designation of new contracting States; 4. Correction of priority data; 5. Extent of competence of the receiving section; C. Examination procedure : 1. Decisions of the examining division; 2. Discretion of the examining division; 3. Approval of the text; 4. Grant of a patent; 5. Metric or SI units; 6. Divisional applications; D. Opposition procedure : 1. The legal nature of opposition proceedings; 2. General issues; 3. Admissibility of opposition; 4. Admissibility of amendments; 5. Examination of the opposition; 6. Decision of opposition division; 7. Apportionment of costs; E. Appeal procedure : 1. Introduction; 2. The language of proceedings in appeal proceedings; 3. The position in terms of procedural law of parties to the appeal proceedings; 4. Termination of appeal proceedings; 5. Binding effect of board of appeal decisions; 6. Remittal to the department of first instance; 7. Interlocutory revision; 8. Admissibility of the appeal; 9. Late-filed claims in appeal proceedings; 10. Reimbursement of appeal fees; F. Proceedings before the disciplinary board of appeal : 1. European qualifying examination : powers of the disciplinary board; 2. Drawing up the examination procedure : conditions for enrolment; 3. Disciplinary measures; 7. The EPO acting as PCT authority : A. The EPO acting as ISA : 1. 000020360 500__ $$aPCT search guidelines binding on the ISA; 2. Protest procedure; B. The EPO acting as IPEA; C. The EPO as designated Office; 8. Institutional matters; Annex 1. Index; Annex 2. Published decisions; Annex 3. Unpublished decisions;. 000020360 650_0 $$aPatents$$zEurope. 000020360 650_4 $$aPATENTS : INTERNATIONAL LAW : EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE (EPO) 000020360 650_4 $$aEUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE : CASE LAW 000020360 651_0 $$aEurope$$xCommerce$$xLaw and legislation. 000020360 903__ $$v1 000020360 942__ $$cMON 000020360 952__ $$w2006-11-03$$p1994-0496$$r45.00$$u31337$$bMAIN$$10$$kG 941 EPO.C 1992$$v1994-04-02$$ztagged$$71 000020360 980__ $$aBIB 000020360 999__ $$c21854$$d21854