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Referrals by boards of appeal
In case T 377/95, Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.4 decided on 5 August 1998 to refer the following point of law to the Enlarged Board of Appeal under Article 112(1)(a) EPC:
(Language of the proceedings)
For the purposes of Article 55(1) EPC, in the case where a priority is recognised for a European patent application, is the time period of six months "preceding the filing of the European patent application" to be calculated from the date of filing of the priority application (the priority date) or from the date of the actual filing of the European patent application?
The case is pending as G 3/98.