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INFORMATION FROM THE EPO

Ancillary Regulations to the European Patent Convention 1998

July 1998 saw the publication of the Ancillary Regulations to the European Patent Convention, edition 1998.

The revised and updated version of the collection of the most important regulations adopted since 1977, arranged according to the articles and rules of the EPC and of the Rules relating to Fees, contains an index in the three official languages of the EPO.

This collection, now about 850 pages long, contains a comprehensive selection of regulations implementing the European Patent Convention, which have all been published at some time in the Official Journal of the EPO and mainly take the form of

• decisions by the Administrative Council
• decisions and communications by the President of the EPO
• legal advice from the EPO
• agreements between the EPO and national offices or WIPO.

There are also notices concerning important EPO forms. The regulations selected for inclusion are reproduced in full. The collection is published in the three official languages of the EPO. The English, French and German editions each cost DEM 40 (plus postage); all three volumes ordered together are available at a reduced price of DEM 100 (plus postage).

Orders should be addressed to the EPO's sub-office in Vienna, which distributes publications.

Now also available from booksellers.