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Guidelines for Examination in the EPO

Guidelines for Examination - Table of Contents  
PART E GUIDELINES ON GENERAL PROCEDURAL MATTERS PART D    
CHAPTER IV TAKING AND CONSERVATION OF EVIDENCE CHAPTER III ORAL PROCEEDINGS CHAPTER V DEROGATIONS FROM THE LANGUAGE OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN ORAL PROCEEDINGS  
1. Taking of evidence by the departments of the EPO   2. Conservation of evidence  
1.6 Hearing of parties, witnesses and experts 1.5 Summoning of parties, witnesses and experts 1.7 Minutes of taking of evidence  
1.6.4 Separate hearings 1.6.3 Guidance to persons heard 1.6.5 Examination as to personal particulars  

1.6.4

Separate hearings

 

Normally each witness must be heard separately, i.e. any other witnesses to be heard subsequently must not be present. This rule does not apply to experts and to the parties. Witnesses whose statements conflict may be confronted with one another, i.e. each heard in turn in the presence of the other. The same applies to experts.

 


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