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EPO Exempts Some Applicants from Submitting Search Results under Rule 141(1) EPC

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

By Donald Zuhn -- Last month, the European Patent Office (EPO) announced that in some circumstances, applicants would be exempted from filing a copy of search results under amended Rule 141(1) EPC. Prior to the EPO's announcement, the new rule would have required applicants to provide a copy of the results of any search that was carried out on a priority application when filing a European application or when entering the regional phase in Europe, and If the results were unavailable upon filing, to provide the results "without delay after such results have been made available" (see "EPO Prepares to...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on January 07, 2011 (boomark / email).