5. Notification of decision under Rule 111(1) EPC

Under R. 111(1) EPC, a decision delivered during oral proceedings must be put in writing and notified to the parties. The date of notification is relevant with regard to the filing of an appeal (Art. 108 EPC and R. 111 EPC). The legal fiction of deemed notification set out in R. 126(2) EPC applies whereby the document is deemed to be delivered to the addressee on the date it bears, unless it has failed to reach the addressee (see notice from the EPO concerning legal changes to support digital transformation in the patent grant procedure (OJ 2022, A114) and notice from the EPO concerning amended R. 126, 127 and 131 EPC (OJ 2023, A29)). For the case law on notifications see chapter III.S. "Notifications".