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Guidelines for Examination in the EPO

Guidelines for Examination - Table of Contents  
PART A GUIDELINES FOR FORMALITIES EXAMINATION General Part PART B  
CHAPTER II FILING OF APPLICATIONS AND EXAMINATION ON FILING CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION CHAPTER III EXAMINATION OF FORMAL REQUIREMENTS  
1. Where and how applications may be filed   2. Persons entitled to file an application  
1.4 Filing of applications by other means 1.3 Filing of applications in electronic form 1.5 Subsequent filing of documents  

1.4

Filing of applications by other means
 

As of 1.1.2003 European patent applications may no longer be filed with the EPO on diskette accompanied by a paper version prepared by means of the EP-EASY software (see the Notice from the EPO dated 1 October 2002, OJ 10/2002, 515). This applies also to the filing of European patent applications with the filing offices of Belgium (BE), Finland (FI), France (FR), Sweden (SE), Switzerland (CH) and the United Kingdom (GB).

 

The filing of European patent applications by other means such as e-mail is at present not allowed (see also the Notice dated 12 September 2000, OJ 10/2000, 458).

 

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