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Implementing Regulations

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Implementing Regulations
to the Convention on the Grant of European Patents

of 5 October 1973

as adopted by decision of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation of 7 December 2006 and

as last amended by decision of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation of 14 December 2023 11 December 2025

 

Any references to persons made in the EPC Implementing Regulations are to be understood as being gender-neutral. 1

Part IImplementing Regulations to part I of the ConventionR. 1 – R. 13

Part IIImplementing Regulations to Part II of the ConventionR. 14 – R. 34

Part IIIImplementing Regulations to Part III of the ConventionR. 35 – R. 54

Part IVImplementing Regulations to Part IV of the ConventionR. 55 – R. 74

Part VImplementing Regulations to Part V of the ConventionR. 75 – R. 96

Part VIImplementing Regulations to Part VI of the ConventionR. 97 – R. 110

Part VIIImplementing Regulations to Part VII of the ConventionR. 111 – R. 154

Part VIIIImplementing Regulations to Part VIII of the ConventionR. 155 – R. 156

Part IXImplementing Regulations to Part X of the ConventionR. 157 – R. 165

1Declaration inserted by decision of the Administrative Council CA/D 20/24 of 10.12.2024 introducing gender-neutral language in the Implementing Regulations (OJ EPO 2025, A16), which entered into force on 01.04.2025.

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