EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION FILED BY NON-ENTITLED PERSONS

According to Article 61 of the European Patent Convention (EPC),

(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, of EPC (regulating European divisional applications) shall apply mutatis mutandis to a new European patent application filed under paragraph 1(b).of this article.

Prepared July 14^th , 2026

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