EPC - general practice, new provisions, EPC.App updates

The update of our EPC.App reference book to legal status of 1st April 2024 is completed. Key changes since the last update in November were the new EPO Guidelines as of March 2024, amendments to the EPO’s fee structure in Rules 6, 7a, 7b, 82, 95, 123 and 146 as well as A. 2 and 14 RFees, amendments to Rules 1, 22, 41, 147, 152 for further digitalisation, the new Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal, T 0116/18 on post-published evidence for inventive step, updated ADA regulations, and validation of EP patents in Georgia.

In the self-editable online version of our EPC commentary, all changes of the update are rolled-out automatically, while personal user annotations from before the update are retained. They can be exported into a customized printable PDF offline version, which may further be ordered as colored paperback via the integrated print-on-demand service. As always, we also released this 12th edition in English and German with same content.

All the references to Articles in this blog post relate to the Articles of the RPBA20/21.

The EBA consulted the users about possible changes of the RPBA in order “To support the pursuit of more ambitious timeliness objectives”. The proposed changes were discussed on this blog.

Reduction of the time to reply to a statement of grounds of appeal

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The update of our EPC.App reference book to legal status of 1st November 2023 is completed. Key changes since the last update in April were the abandonment of the 10-day rule in Rules 126, 127 and 131 as of November 2023, G 1/22 + G 2/22 on entitlement to priority, J 5/23 on signature requirements, more functionalities in MyEPO Portfolio, and of course the UPCA entry into force.

In the self-editable online version of our EPC commentary, all changes of the update are rolled-out automatically, while personal user annotations from before the update are retained. They can be exported into a customized printable PDF offline version, which may further be ordered as colored paperback via the integrated print-on-demand service. As always, we also released this 11th edition in English and German with same content.

On May 23d, the Department for Intellectual Property and Competition Law of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition organised a lecture on “Constitutional Requirements for the Design of Supranational Legal Protection”.

Speaker was Prof. Dr. Peter M. Huber (former Federal Constitutional Court Judge and former Minister of the Interior of Thuringia).

The update of our EPC.App reference book to legal status of 1st April 2023 is completed. Key changes since the last update in November were the new EPO Guidelines as of March 2023, G 2/21 on plausibility, amendments to Rules 46, 49, 50, 57, 82 on format requirements of application documents as well as to Rule 65 on the transmittal of the search report, the increase of EPO fees, and the upcoming UPCA entry into force.

In the self-editable online version of our EPC commentary, all changes of the update are rolled-out automatically, while personal user annotations from before the update are retained. They can be exported into a customized printable PDF offline version, which may further be ordered as colored paperback via the integrated print-on-demand service. As usual, we also released this 10th edition as standalone softcover books in English or German with same content.