EUROPEAN PATENT CONVENTION - Table of Contents Implementing Regulations to the Convention on the Grant of European Patents PART IV - IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS TO PART IV OF THE CONVENTION Chapter III - Publication of the European patent application Rule 69 - Information about publication

Rule 69 Information about publication

Art. 93, 94, 129

(1) The European Patent Office shall inform the applicant of the date on which the European Patent Bulletin mentions the publication of the European search report and shall draw his attention to Rule 70, paragraph 1, and Article 94, paragraph 2.

(2) The applicant may not invoke the omission of the communication under paragraph 1. If a later date of publication is specified in the communication, that later date shall be the decisive date as regards the period for filing the request for examination, unless the error is obvious.