EUROPEAN PATENT CONVENTION - Table of Contents Implementing Regulations to the Convention on the Grant of European Patents PART II - IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS TO PART II OF THE CONVENTION Chapter III - Registration of transfers, licences and other rights Rule 24 - Special entries for licence registrations

Rule 2416 Special entries for licence registrations

Art. 73, 127

A licence in respect of a European patent application shall be recorded

(a) as an exclusive licence if the applicant and the licensee so request;

(b) as a sub-licence where it is granted by a licensee whose licence is recorded in the European Patent Register.

16 See decision of the President of the EPO, Special edition No. 3, OJ EPO 2007, G.1.