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More Changes Coming in Europe

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Christopher P. Singer -- About two weeks ago, we were advised of by one of our European associates about changes to the rules relating to divisional practice in the European Patent Office (see "Changes Coming to Divisional Application Practice in Europe"). This week, our associate Forresters advised us about further rule changes that are scheduled to take effect on April 1, 2010. These changes include: Compulsory Applicant Responses to EP Search Reports Under the current rules, applicants are not required to respond to any search report issued by the EPO. The new rule changes will require that applicants respond...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on April 09, 2009 (boomark / email).