| Article 1 | European law for the grant of patents |
| Article 2 | European patent |
| Article 3 | Territorial effect |
| Article 4 | European Patent Organisation |
| Article 5 | Legal status |
| Article 6 | Seat |
| Article 7 | Sub-offices of the European Patent Office |
| Article 8 | Privileges and immunities |
| Article 9 | Liability |
| Article 10 | Direction |
| Article 11 | Appointment of senior employees |
| Article 12 | Duties of office |
| Article 13 | Disputes between the Organisation and the employees of the European Patent Office |
| Article 14 | Languages of the European Patent Office |
| Article 15 | The departments charged with the procedure |
| Article 16 | Receiving Section |
| Article 17 | Search Divisions |
| Article 18 | Examining Divisions |
| Article 19 | Opposition Divisions |
| Article 20 | Legal Division |
| Article 21 | Boards of Appeal |
| Article 22 | Enlarged Board of Appeal |
| Article 23 | Independence of the members of the Boards |
| Article 24 | Exclusion and objection |
| Article 25 | Technical opinion |
| Article 26 | Membership |
| Article 27 | Chairmanship |
| Article 28 | Board |
| Article 29 | Meetings |
| Article 30 | Attendance of observers |
| Article 31 | Languages of the Administrative Council |
| Article 32 | Staff, premises and equipment |
| Article 33 | Competence of the Administrative Council in certain cases |
| Article 34 | Voting rights |
| Article 35 | Voting rules |
| Article 36 | Weighting of votes |
| Article 37 | Budgetary funding |
| Article 38 | The Organisation's own resources |
| Article 39 | Payments by the Contracting States in respect of renewal fees for European patents |
| Article 40 | Level of fees and payments - Special financial contributions |
| Article 41 | Advances |
| Article 42 | Budgetary funding |
| Article 43 | Authorisation for expenditure |
| Article 44 | Appropriations for unforeseeable expenditure |
| Article 45 | Accounting period |
| Article 46 | Preparation and adoption of the budget |
| Article 47 | Provisional budget |
| Article 48 | Budget implementation |
| Article 49 | Auditing of accounts |
| Article 50 | Financial Regulations |
| Article 51 | Rules relating to Fees |
| Article 52 | Patentable inventions |
| Article 53 | Exceptions to patentability |
| Article 54 | Novelty |
| Article 55 | Non-prejudicial disclosures |
| Article 56 | Inventive step |
| Article 57 | Industrial application |
| Article 58 | Entitlement to file a European patent application |
| Article 59 | Multiple applicants |
| Article 60 | Right to a European patent |
| Article 61 | European patent applications by persons not having the right to a European patent |
| Article 62 | Right of the inventor to be mentioned |
| Article 63 | Term of the European patent |
| Article 64 | Rights conferred by a European patent |
| Article 65 | Translation of the specification of the European patent |
| Article 66 | Equivalence of European filing with national filing |
| Article 67 | Rights conferred by a European patent application after publication |
| Article 68 | Effect of revocation of the European patent |
| Article 69 | Extent of protection |
| Article 70 | authentic text of a European patent application or European patent |
| Article 71 | Transfer and constitution of rights |
| Article 72 | Assignment |
| Article 73 | Contractual licensing |
| Article 74 | Law applicable |
| Article 75 | Filing of the European patent application |
| Article 76 | European divisional applications |
| Article 77 | Forwarding of European patent applications |
| Article 78 | Requirements of the European patent application |
| Article 79 | Designation of Contracting States |
| Article 80 | Date of filing |
| Article 81 | Designation of the inventor |
| Article 82 | Unity of invention |
| Article 83 | Disclosure of the invention |
| Article 84 | The claims |
| Article 85 | The abstract |
| Article 86 | Renewal fees for European patent applications |
| Article 87 | Priority right |
| Article 88 | Claiming priority |
| Article 89 | Effect of priority right |
| Article 90 | Examination on filing |
| Article 91 | Examination as to formal requirements |
| Article 92 | The drawing up of the European search report |
| Article 93 | Publication of a European patent application |
| Article 94 | Request for examination |
| Article 95 | Extension of the period within which requests for examination may be filed |
| Article 96 | Examination of the European patent application |
| Article 97 | Refusal or grant |
| Article 98 | Publication of a specification of the European patent |
| Article 99 | Opposition Divisions |
| Article 100 | Grounds for opposition |
| Article 101 | Examination of the opposition |
| Article 102 | Revocation or maintenance of the European patent |
| Article 103 | Publication of a new specification of the European patent |
| Article 104 | Costs |
| Article 105 | Intervention of the assumed infringer |
| Article 106 | Decisions subject to appeal |
| Article 107 | Persons entitled to appeal and to be parties to appeal proceedings |
| Article 108 | Time limit and form of appeal |
| Article 109 | Interlocutory revision |
| Article 110 | Examination of appeals |
| Article 111 | Decision in respect of appeals |
| Article 112 | Decision or opinion of the Enlarged Board of Appeal |
| Article 113 | Basis of decisions |
| Article 114 | Examination by the European Patent Office of its own motion |
| Article 115 | Observations by third parties |
| Article 116 | Oral proceedings |
| Article 117 | Taking of evidence |
| Article 118 | Unity of the European patent application of European patent |
| Article 119 | Notification |
| Article 120 | Time limits |
| Article 121 | Further processing of the European patent application |
| Article 122 | Restitutio in integrum |
| Article 123 | Amendments |
| Article 124 | Information concerning national patent applications |
| Article 125 | Reference to general principles |
| Article 126 | Termination of financial obligations |
| Article 127 | Register of European Patents |
| Article 128 | Inspection of files |
| Article 129 | Periodical publications |
| Article 130 | Exchanges of information |
| Article 131 | Administrative and legal co-operation |
| Article 132 | Exchange of publications |
| Article 133 | General principles of representation |
| Article 134 | Professional representatives |
| Article 135 | Request for the application of national procedure |
| Article 136 | Submission and transmission of the request |
| Article 137 | Formal requirements for conversion |
| Article 138 | Grounds for revocation |
| Article 139 | Rights of earlier date or the same date |
| Article 140 | National utility models and utility certificates |
| Article 141 | Renewal fees for European patents |
| Article 142 | Unitary patents |
| Article 143 | Special departments of the European Patent Office |
| Article 144 | Representation before special departments |
| Article 145 | Select committee of the Administrative Council |
| Article 146 | cover for expenditure for carrying out special tasks |
| Article 147 | Payments in respect of renewal fees for unitary patents |
| Article 148 | The European patent application as an object of property |
| Article 149 | Joint designation |
| Article 150 | Application of the Patent cooperation Treaty |
| Article 151 | The European Patent Office as a receiving Office |
| Article 152 | Filing and transmittal of the international application |
| Article 153 | The European Patent Office as a designated Office |
| Article 154 | The European Patent Office as an International Searching Authority |
| Article 155 | The European Patent Office as an International Preliminary Examing Authority |
| Article 156 | The European Patent Office as an elected Office |
| Article 157 | International search report |
| Article 158 | Publication of the international application and its supply to the European Patent Office |
| Article 159 | Administrative Council during a transitional period |
| Article 160 | Appointment of employees during a transitional period |
| Article 161 | First accounting period |
| Article 162 | Progressive expansion of the field of activity of the European Patent Office |
| Article 163 | Professional representatives during a transitional period |
| Article 164 | Implementing Regulations and Protocols |
| Article 165 | signature - Ratification |
| Article 166 | Accession |
| Article 167 | Reservations |
| Article 168 | Territorial field of application |
| Article 169 | Entry into force |
| Article 170 | Initial contribution |
| Article 171 | Duration of the convention |
| Article 172 | Revision |
| Article 173 | Disputes between Contracting States |
| Article 174 | Denunciation |
| Article 175 | Preservation of acquired rights |
| Article 176 | Financial rights and obligations of a former Contracting State |
| Article 177 | Languages of the convention |
| Article 178 | Transmission and notifications |
