Article 61 - European patent applications filed by non-entitled persons
(1) If by a final decision it is adjudged that a person other than the applicant is entitled to the grant of the European patent, that person may, in accordance with the Implementing Regulations:
(a) prosecute the European patent application as his own application in place of the applicant;
(b) file a new European patent application in respect of the same invention; or
(c) request that the European patent application be refused.
(2) Article 76, paragraph 1, shall apply mutatis mutandis to a new European patent application filed under paragraph 1(b).
Notes
- Amended by the Act revising the European Patent Convention of 29.11.2000.
- See decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 3/92 (Annex I).
Article 61 - European patent applications filed by non-entitled persons
(1) If by a final decision it is adjudged that a person other than the applicant is entitled to the grant of the European patent, that person may, in accordance with the Implementing Regulations:
(a) prosecute the European patent application as his own application in place of the applicant;
(b) file a new European patent application in respect of the same invention; or
(c) request that the European patent application be refused.
(2) Article 76, paragraph 1, shall apply mutatis mutandis to a new European patent application filed under paragraph 1(b).
Notes
- Amended by the Act revising the European Patent Convention of 29.11.2000.
- See decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 3/92 (Annex I).