Part E – Guidelines on General Procedural Matters
Overview
Part E
Guidelines on General Procedural Matters
Contents
Chapter II – Communications and notifications
Chapter III – Oral proceedings
Chapter IV – Taking and conservation of evidence
Chapter V – Derogations from the language of the proceedings in oral proceedings
Chapter VI – Examination by the EPO of its own motion; facts, evidence or grounds not submitted in due time; observations by third parties
Chapter VII – Interruption, stay and consolidation of the proceedings
Chapter VIII – Time limits, loss of rights, further and accelerated processing and re-establishment of rights
Chapter IX – Applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
Chapter X – Decisions
Chapter XII – Appeals
Chapter XIII – Request from a national court for a technical opinion concerning a European patent
Chapter XIV – Registration of changes of name, transfers, licences and other rights