• on the application form available from the European Patent Office (EPO)
• by 1 March of each year; applications not received by that date can be held over until the following year.
Decisions in respect of applications for support are taken by the President of the EPO following consultation
with the Research Advisory Board. The members of this Board are, at present, the following:
Prof. Dr. Johannes J. Brinkhof
De Lairessestraat 111 - 11 5
1 075 HH Amsterdam
Netherlands
Prof. William R. Cornish
Prof. Dr. José A. Gomez Segade
Catedrático de Derecho Mercantil
Facultad de Derecho
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
1 5782 Santiago de Compostela
Spain
Professor Bert Gordijn
Radboud University Nijmegen
Medical Centre
Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine
P.O. Box 9101
6500 HB Nijmegen
Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Otto Leberl
Präsident des Österreichischen Patentamts i.R.
Schanzenweg 45
2201 Gerasdrof/Wien
Austria
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Joseph Straus
Direktor
Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales
Patent-, Urheber- und Wettbewerbsrecht
Marstallplatz 1
80539 Munich
Germany
Prof. Avv. Luigi Carlo Ubertazzi
Corso di Porta Ticinese 60
20123 Milano
Italy
Prof. Michel Vivant
Agrégé des Faclutés de droit
Université de Montpellier
"Les Chênes-verts"
868 Route de Ganges
34 090 Montpellier
France
Prof. Dr. Joseph Voyame
Le Péquie
2874 Saint-Brais
Switzerland
The particular conditions concerning financial support are determined in each case by the President of the EPO
and depend on the nature of the project in question.
Applicants wishing to obtain information concerning the Research Fund or the envisaged research projects may
contact either the members of the Research Advisory Board or the EPO in Munich, Directorate of International
Legal Affairs:
Ms Fabienne Gauye
tel. (+49-89) 2399-5224
fax (+49-89) 2399-5219
e-mail fgauye@epo.org
or
Ms Liane Kremer-Apel
tel. (+49-89) 2399-5218
fax (+49-89) 2399-5219
e-mail lkremerapel@epo.org
European Patent Office (EPO)
Erhardtstrasse 27
80469 Munich
Germany