Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office (status: 20 June 2012)

Notice from the European Patent Office concerning the entrance into force of the revised Guidelines for examination in the European Patent Office

The EPO's revised Guidelines for Examination entered into force on 20 June 2012. They have been restructured into eight parts, their content has been updated, and parts of the internal instructions have been incorporated.

The revised Guidelines are available online in the EPO's three official languages. To make them easier to use, a correspondence table, a table of contents (indicating sources in the 2010 edition) and an alphabetical keyword index are also published here.