EUROPEAN PATENT CONVENTION - Table of Contents Implementing Regulations to the Convention on the Grant of European Patents PART VII - IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS TO PART VII OF THE CONVENTION Chapter VI - Amendments and corrections Rule 139 - Correction of errors in documents filed with the European Patent Office

Rule 13968 Correction of errors in documents filed with the European Patent Office

Art. 78, 90 R. 71

Linguistic errors, errors of transcription and mistakes in any document filed with the European Patent Office may be corrected on request. However, if the request for such correction concerns the description, claims or drawings, the correction must be obvious in the sense that it is immediately evident that nothing else would have been intended than what is offered as the correction.

68 See decisions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 3/89, G 11/91, G 2/95 (Annex I).