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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 III EXAMINATION OF FORMAL REQUIREMENTS CHAPTER II FILING OF APPLICATIONS AND EXAMINATION ON FILING CHAPTER IV SPECIAL PROVISIONS  
1. General   2. Representation  
1.1 Formal requirements   1.2 Further checks  

1.1

Formal requirements
 

The formal requirements that an application has to meet and which are the subject of an examination by the Receiving Section are those specified in Art. 90(3). These requirements relate to the following:

Art. 90(3)



(i)

representation;

  

(ii)

physical requirements of the application;

  

(iii)

abstract;

  

(iv)

request for grant;

  

(v)

claim to priority;

  

(vi)

designation of inventor;

  

(vii)

translations, where required;

  

(viii)

the presence of at least one claim;

  

(ix)

filing and search fees

  

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