EUROPEAN PATENT CONVENTION - Table of Contents Convention on the Grant of European Patents (European Patent Convention) PART VIII - IMPACT ON NATIONAL LAW Chapter I - Conversion into a national patent application   Article 137 - Formal requirements for conversion

Article 137148 Formal requirements for conversion

Art. 140 R. 155

(1) A European patent application transmitted in accordance with Article 135, paragraph 2 or 3, shall not be subjected to formal requirements of national law which are different from or additional to those provided for in this Convention.

(2) Any central industrial property office to which the European patent application is transmitted may require that the applicant shall, within a period of not less than two months:

(a) pay the national application fee; and

(b) file a translation of the original text of the European patent application in an official language of the State in question and, where appropriate, of the text as amended during proceedings before the European Patent Office which the applicant wishes to use as the basis for the national procedure.

148 Amended by the Act revising the European Patent Convention of 29.11.2000.