T 0095/83 (Late submission of amendment) of 09.10.1984

If an applicant for a patent or a patentee desires to submit amendments to the description, claims or drawings of a European patent application or a European patent in the course of appeal proceedings, this should be done at the earliest possible moment (OJ EPO 6/1981, 176; 8/1984, 376). It is only in the most exceptional circumstances, where there is some clear justification both for the amendment and for its late submission, that it is likely that an amendment not submitted in good time before oral proceedings will be considered on its merits in those proceedings by a Board of Appeal.