[原文]
(1)53 If the European Patent Office considers that the European patent application does not
comply with the requirement of unity of invention, it shall draw up a partial search report on those parts of the application which relate to the invention, or the group of inventions within the meaning of Article 82, first mentioned in the claims. It shall inform the applicant that, for the European search report to cover the other inventions, a further search fee must be paid, in respect of each invention involved, within a period of two months. The European search report shall be drawn up for the parts of the application relating to inventions in respect of which search fees have been paid.
範例:
缺乏單一性的說明:
部份檢索報告:
也會附上初步審查意見:
程序整理:
- 歐洲專利局接獲專利申請案時,在進入實際審查前,會提出一份檢索報告
- 若判斷該申請案不符單一性規定,則會對第一組範圍做出部份檢索報告(partial European search report)
- 往後的後續程序就僅能針對經檢索的該組範圍進行答辯與修正
- 若申請人希望歐洲專利局能對其他未被檢索的範圍提出檢索報告(extend the partial European search report),則於接獲第一次檢索報告後2個月內繳付額外檢索費用,歐洲專利局將會對其餘範圍做出另一份檢索報告
- 之後,申請人將會收到完整包括全部範圍(或是選擇其中部份)的檢索報告(final search report),並包括一些審查意見
- 但歐洲專利局之後仍僅根據不符單一性的規定而對一組權利範圍進行實際審查
- 若申請人並未額外支付檢索費用,之後的審查意見僅針對「第一組」權利範圍(因此歐洲專利的前後順序很重要,可參考)
- 若申請人有支付額外檢索費用,接獲final search report之後,可以選擇其中之一組權利範圍作為後續審查的基礎
- 接獲final search report後,申請人可以提出修正
EP單一性規定參考
http://enpan.blogspot.com/2010/03/epc.html
EP分割案可參考
http://enpan.blogspot.com/2010/03/ep.html
Ron
1 則留言:
您好,我想請問一下,若歐盟案發下partial SR,那可提分案的期限是否將以SR發下的24個月內?感謝~
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