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EPO gets Stricter on Requirements for Recording Assignments
By AWA | Posted on October 24, 2016
The EPO is going to take a stricter approach for recording an assignment of EP applications. Up until now the EPO has accepted assignment documents evidencing a transfer that had only been signed by the Assignor. Recordal of assignment is governed by Article 72 EPC which states that “An assignment of a European patent application...
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2 years to file EPC divisionals
By Eva Carlsson | Posted on April 6, 2009
The European Patent Office has decided to restrict the possibility for filing divisional applications. Under the current Rule 36 EPC a divisional application may be filed up to the grant of the parent application. According to the adopted amendments to Rule 36 (1) EPC the applicant has a basic right to file one or more...
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