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Chapter IV – Notifications

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Rule 127160
Notification by means of electronic communication

(1) Notification may be effected by means of electronic communication as determined by the President of the European Patent Office and under the conditions laid down by him the President of the European Patent Office.

(2)161 Where notification is effected by means of electronic communication, the electronic document shall be deemed to be delivered to the addressee on the tenth day following its transmission date it bears, unless it has failed to reach its destination. or has reached its destination at a later date; In in the event of any dispute concerning the delivery of the electronic document, it shall be incumbent on the European Patent Office to establish that the electronic document has reached its destination or and to establish the date on which it reached its destination, as the case may be. If the European Patent Office establishes that the electronic document has reached its destination more than seven days after the date it bears, a period for which the deemed receipt of that document is the relevant event under Rule 131, paragraph 2, shall expire later by the number of days by which the seven days were exceeded.

160Amended by decision of the Administrative Council CA/D 6/14 of 15.10.2014 (OJ EPO 2015, A17), which entered into force on 01.04.2015.
See notice from the EPO of 30.03.2015 (OJ EPO 2015, A36).
See decision the following decisions of the President of the EPO: of 11.03.2015 concerning the pilot project to introduce new means of electronic communication in EPO proceedings (OJ EPO 2015, A28; re amendments see OJ EPO 2024, A43), of 09.02.2024 concerning the web-based online service MyEPO Portfolio and electronic notification to the Mailbox in proceedings under the EPC and the PCT (OJ EPO 2024, A20) and of 09.02.2024 concerning the web-based online service MyEPO Portfolio and electronic notification to the Mailbox in proceedings related to European patents with unitary effect (OJ EPO 2024, A19).
See notice from the EPO of 22.04.2024 concerning the decommissioning of certain online services (OJ EPO 2024, A44).
See notices of the President of the Boards of Appeal of 13.04.2021 concerning the extension of electronic notification via the EPO Mailbox to appeal proceedings (OJ EPO 2021, A37) and of 09.01.2025 concerning the extension to proceedings before the Enlarged Board of Appeal (OJ EPO 2025, A11).

161Amended by decision of the Administrative Council CA/D 10/22 of 13.10.2022 (OJ EPO 2022, A101), which entered into force on 01.11.2023.
See notice from the EPO of 25.11.2022 concerning legal changes to support digital transformation in the patent grant procedure (OJ EPO 2022, A114) and of 06.03.2023 concerning amended Rules 126, 127 and 131 EPC (OJ EPO 2023, A29).

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