INFORMATION FROM THE EPO
List of holidays observed by EPO filing offices and the national patent authorities in 2008
The Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (OEPM) has informed us that this year, in addition to the list of holidays published in OJ EPO 2008, 27, Tuesday, 9 September 2008 has been established as a further holiday for Madrid, so that the Madrid office of the OEPM will also be closed on that day.
Under Rule 134(1) EPC, periods expiring on a day on which at least one of the filing offices of the EPO is not open for receipt of documents are extended to the first day thereafter on which all the filing offices are open for receipt of documents.
Under Rule 134(3) EPC, the provisions of Rule 134(1) EPC apply mutatis mutandis where acts are performed with the central industrial property office or other competent authority of the contracting state.