Part D – Guidelines for Opposition and Limitation/Revocation Procedures
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Chapter VII – Details and special features of the proceedings

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7. Publication of a new specification of the patent 

If a European patent is maintained in an amended form, the EPO must, as soon as possible after it publishes the mention of the opposition decision, publish a new specification of the European patent containing the description, the claims and any drawings, in the amended form.

Art. 103

Rule 74 applies mutatis mutandis to the new specification of the European patent.

Rule 87

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