EUROPEAN PATENT CONVENTION - Table of Contents Implementing Regulations to the Convention on the Grant of European Patents PART V - IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS TO PART V OF THE CONVENTION Chapter I - Opposition procedure   Rule 89 - Intervention of the assumed infringer

Rule 8952 Intervention of the assumed infringer

Art. 99 R. 3, 6, 76- 86, 112

(1) Notice of intervention shall be filed within three months of the date on which proceedings referred to in Article 105 are instituted.

(2) Notice of intervention shall be filed in a written reasoned statement; Rules 76 and 77 shall apply mutatis mutandis. The notice of intervention shall not be deemed to have been filed until the opposition fee has been paid.

52 See decisions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 4/91, G 1/94, G 2/04, G 3/04, G 1/05 (Annex I).