5.1 General remarks 

Every application must designate the inventor. , who must be a person with legal capacity (J 8/20). The designation is incorporated in the software provided by the EPO for electronic filing (see A‑II, 1.3). When filing on paper, the designation is filed in a separate document where the applicant is not the inventor or the sole inventor; otherwise the designation must be effected in the request for grant form (EPO Form 1001) by placing a cross in the appropriate box in section 22. Where the designation is effected in a separate document, a trilingual form available from the EPO website should preferably be used (EPO Form 1002).