4.2. Amended Rule 142(2) EPC

By decision dated 27 March 2020, the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation amended the R. 142(2) EPC provision on resuming interrupted proceedings (OJ 2020, A76). The newly inserted second sentence permits the EPO to set a date on which it intends to resume proceedings of its own motion if, three years after publication of the date of their interruption in the European Patent Bulletin, it still has not been informed who is authorised to continue them.