III. Filing the request for unitary effect
66Receipt of requests for unitary effect filed via Online Filing or Online Filing 2.0 is acknowledged electronically during the submission session. If the web-form filing service is used, an electronic acknowledgment of receipt will be displayed on the website once the files are transferred. You can also request that acknowledgment of receipt be sent by email.
66For requests filed by postal services or fax, i.e. on paper, the EPO acknowledges receipt without delay by sending you page 4 of the request, on which it notes the date it received the request, the number of the European patent for which unitary effect was requested and the accompanying documents.