J 0004/00 du 21.03.2002
- Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
- ECLI:EP:BA:2002:J000400.20020321
- Date de la décision
- 21 mars 2002
- Numéro de l'affaire
- J 0004/00
- Requête en révision de
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- Numéro de la demande
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- Classe de la CIB
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- Langue de la procédure
- Anglais
- Distribution
- Distribuées aux présidents et aux membres des chambres de recours (B)
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- Décision en anglais
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- Aucun lien JO trouvé
- Autres décisions pour cet affaire
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- Résumés pour cette décision
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- Titre de la demande
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- Nom du demandeur
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- Nom de l'opposant
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- Chambre
- 3.1.01
- Sommaire
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- Dispositions juridiques pertinentes
- European Patent Convention Art 94 1973European Patent Convention R 104b 1973European Patent Convention R 85 1973European Patent Convention R 88 1973
- Mots-clés
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- Exergue
- A request for examination under Article 94 EPC requires, over and above payment of the examination fee, that the underlying intention of an applicant that its application proceed to examination is manifested in a written statement made by the applicant or its representative addressed to the Office and received there in time. While this requirement is quite distinct from that of payment of the examination fee, there is no prescribed form of words for a request for examination which (as here) can be contained in the same document (here, a telex) as a debit order or other payment instruction. To qualify as a request for examination, the only reasonable interpretation in the circumstances of the case of the text filed with the Office must be that the applicant thereby wanted to inform the Office that it wish to have the application examined pursuant to Article 94 EPC.
- Affaires citantes
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the first instance for further prosecution.