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Guidelines for Examination

 
 
Table of Contents - Guidelines for Examination
Part E Guidelines on General Procedural Matters
Chapter VII – Time limits, loss of rights, further and accelerated processing and re-establishment of rights
2. Further processing and re-establishment of rights
2.2 Re-establishment of rights
2.2.6 Special considerations when there is more than one party
2.2.6
Special considerations when there is more than one party 

If, for instance in opposition proceedings, the proprietor of the patent files an application for re-establishment of rights, the opponents and any third parties, although not involved in the procedure for the re-establishment of rights, must be informed of the application for re-establishment of rights and the subsequent decision, if this involves the re-establishment of rights as regards a time limit connected with the opposition procedure.