Chapter I – Common provisions governing procedure
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16th edition: this version presents the text in force on 1 July 2020. |
Decisions, summonses, notices and communications shall be notified by the European Patent Office of its own motion in accordance with the Implementing Regulations. Notification may, where exceptional circumstances so require, be effected through the intermediary of the central industrial property offices of the Contracting States.
137Amended by the Act revising the European Patent Convention of 29.11.2000.
138See decision of the President of the EPO concerning the pilot project to introduce new means of electronic communication in EPO proceedings, OJ EPO 2015, A28. See also the notice of the EPO concerning the use of an address for correspondence, OJ EPO 2014, A99.