Official Journal November 2020
Article | Article number | View |
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EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE | ||
Information from the EPO | ||
| Notice from the European Patent Office dated 22 October 2020 concerning the procedures and safeguards which apply under the EPC and the PCT in the event of outages of means of electronic filing and other online services | A120 | |
| Decision of the President of the European Patent Office dated 10 November 2020 concerning the modification and extension of the pilot project for oral proceedings by videoconference before opposition divisions | A121 | |
| Notice from the European Patent Office dated 10 November 2020 concerning oral proceedings before examining and opposition divisions, and consultations, by videoconference | A122 | |
| Notice from the European Patent Office dated 10 November 2020 concerning the disruptions due to the COVID-19 outbreak | A123 | |
| Notice from the European Patent Office dated 10 November 2020 concerning non-attendance at oral proceedings in the examination procedure | A124 | |
| Patent Prosecution Highway programme between the European Patent Office and the Israel Patent Office based on PCT and national work products | A125 | |
Representation | ||
| List of professional representatives before the EPO | A126 | |
Fees | ||
| Guidance for the payment of fees, expenses and prices | A127 | |
| Warning – beware of approaches and requests for payment from firms purporting to register European patents | A128 | |
| Fees for international applications: new equivalent amounts | A129 | |
| Notice from the European Patent Office dated 23 November 2020 concerning improvements in the online service for paying fees by credit card and the introduction of a new functionality facilitating payments by bank transfer | A130 | |
BOARDS OF APPEAL | ||
| Notice of the President of the Boards of Appeal dated 31 October 2020 on introducing a consolidated list of documents submitted by parties during inter partes appeal proceedings and on discontinuing the forwarding of cited documents to the other parties | A131 |