A.80 EPC Date of filing

The date of filing of a European patent application shall be the date on which the requirements laid down in the Implementing Regulations are fulfilled.

[ Art. 54 60 66 78 79 83 84 90 92 R. 19 30 38 39 40 42 49 55 56 60 143 ]

Amended by the Act revising the European Patent Convention of 29.11.2000.

See decision/opinion of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 2/95, G 4/98 (Annex I).

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Date retrieved: 17 May 2021

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EPC Articles

X Chapter I Filing and requirements of the European patent application

X A.14 EPC Languages of the European Patent Office, European patent applications and other documents

X A.54 EPC Novelty

X A.60 EPC Right to a European patent

X A.66 EPC Equivalence of European filing with national filing

X A.78 EPC Requirements of a European patent application

X A.79 EPC Designation of Contracting States

X A.83 EPC Disclosure of the invention

X A.84 EPC Claims

X A.90 EPC Examination on filing and examination as to formal requirements

X A.92 EPC Drawing up of the European search report

EPC Implementing Rules

X R.19 EPC Designation of the inventor

X R.30 EPC Requirements of European patent applications relating to nucleotide and amino acid sequences

X R.38 EPC Filing fee and search fee

X R.39 EPC Designation fees

X R.40 EPC Date of filing

X R.42 EPC Content of the description

X R.43 EPC Form and content of claims

X R.49 EPC General provisions governing the presentation of the application documents

X R.55 EPC Examination on filing

X R.56 EPC Missing parts of the description or missing drawings

X R.60 EPC Subsequent designation of the inventor

X R.143 EPC Entries in the European Patent Register

EPO Guidelines - A Formalities Examination

X GL A III 15 Late filing of claims

X GL A IV 1.2.1 Date of filing

EPO Guidelines - B Search

X GL B VI 4.1 Potentially conflicting European and international applications

X GL B VI 5.1 Verification of claimed priority date(s)

EPO Guidelines - F The European Patent Application

X GL F VI 1.1 Filing date as effective date

Offical Journal of the EPO

X OJ EPO SE 1/2021, p111 - XI.1 - Filing of patent applications and other documents by facsimile

X OJ EPO SE 1/2020, p104 - XI.1 - Filing of patent applications and other documents by facsimile

X OJ EPO SE 1/2019, p88 - XI.1 - Filing of patent applications and other documents by facsimile

X OJ EPO 2019, A18 - Decision of the President of the European Patent Office dated 20 February 2019 concerning the filing of patent applications and other documents by facsimile

X OJ EPO SE 1/2018, p106 - XI.6 - Decision of the President of the European Patent Office dated 10 September 2014 [ 1 ] concerning the filing of documents using the EPO web-form filing service

X OJ EPO SE 1/2018, p102 - XI.5 - Decision of the President of the European Patent Office dated 11 March 2015 [ 1 ] concerning the filing of documents using the EPO case management system

X OJ EPO SE 1/2018, p93 - XI.2 - Decision of the President of the European Patent Office dated 10 November 2015 [ 1 ] concerning the electronic filing of documents

X OJ EPO SE 1/2018, p88 - XI.1 - Filing of patent applications and other documents by facsimile

X OJ EPO SE 4/2017, p2 - BOARD OF APPEAL AND ENLARGED BOARD OF APPEAL CASE LAW 2015/2016

X OJ EPO SE 1/2017, p107 - XI.6 - Decision of the President of the European Patent Office dated 10 September 2014 [ 1 ] concerning the filing of documents using the EPO web-form filing service

X OJ EPO SE 1/2017, p103 - XI.5 - Decision of the President of the European Patent Office dated 11 March 2015 [ 1 ] concerning the filing of documents using the EPO case management system

X OJ EPO SE 1/2017, p94 - XI.2 - Decision of the President of the European Patent Office dated 10 November 2015 [ 1 ] concerning the electronic filing of documents

X OJ EPO SE 1/2017, p89 - XI.1 - Filing of patent applications and other documents by facsimile

X OJ EPO 2009, 182 - Decision of the President of the European Patent Office dated 26 February 2009 concerning the electronic filing of documents

X OJ EPO 2009, 170 - Decision of the Legal Board of Appeal dated 17 December 2007 J 3/06 3.1.01

X OJ EPO 2008, 567 - Decisions of the boards of appeal

X OJ EPO 2008, 271 - Decisions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal

Case Law Book: III Amendments

X CLR III V 4.1 Filing of the authorisation

Case Law Book: IV Divisional Applications

X CLR IV A 1 Introduction

X CLR IV A 5.1 Requirements for according a date of filing

X CLR IV A 5.4.1 Legal provisions

X CLR IV A 5.6 Change of date of filing

Case Law of the Enlarged Board

X G 0002/95 (Replacement of application documents) of 14.5.1996

X G 0004/98 (Designation fees) of 27.11.2000

General Case Law

X J 0010/07 (Subsequent filing of drawings/AMAZONEN-WERKE) of 31.3.2008

X J 0010/08 (Retraction of withdrawal/BACTERIN) of 16.11.2009

X J 0019/13 (Deficiency concerning the signature on the request for grant) of 30.5.2016