INFORMATION FROM THE EPO
10th edition of the "European Patent Convention"
The 10th revised edition of the "European Patent Convention" (effective as from 1 March 2000) will be available shortly. It contains the current texts of the Convention on the Grant of European Patents and its Implementing Regulations, the Protocol on Centralisation, the Protocol on Recognition, the Protocol on Privileges and Immunities and the Rules relating to Fees. Moreover, it encompasses an index of published decisions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (Annex I), the legal advice of the EPO in brief (Annex II) and for the first time an alphabetical keyword index.
Orders should be sent to the European Patent Office using the attached order form.