2. European Patent Register
2.2. Registration of licences
As to the recording in the Register of an exclusive licence under a patent already granted, the Legal Board ruled in its decisions J 17/91 (OJ 1994, 225) and J 19/91 that registration was no longer possible once the patent had been granted because the EPO had renounced jurisdiction in favour of the national offices of the contracting states designated in the request for grant.