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Chapter III – The European Patent Office

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  2. The European Patent Convention – Contents
  3. European Patent Convention
  4. Part I
  5. Chapter III
  6. Article 15
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Article 15 – Departments entrusted with the procedure

Article 10 – Management
Article 11 – Appointment of senior employees
Article 12 – Duties of office
Article 13 – Disputes between the Organisation and the employees of the European Patent Office
Article 14 – Languages of the European Patent Office, European patent applications and other documents
Article 15 – Departments entrusted with the procedure
Article 16 – Receiving Section
Article 17 – Search Divisions
Article 18 – Examining Divisions
Article 19 – Opposition Divisions
Article 20 – Legal Division
Article 21 – Boards of Appeal
Article 22 – Enlarged Board of Appeal
Article 23 – Independence of the members of the Boards
Article 24 – Exclusion and objection
Article 25 – Technical opinion

Article 1513
Departments entrusted with the procedure

Part I – General and institutional provisions
Chapter III – The European Patent Office

To carry out the procedures laid down in this Convention, the following shall be set up within the European Patent Office:

(a) a Receiving Section; 

(b) Search Divisions; 

(c) Examining Divisions; 

(d) Opposition Divisions; 

(e) a Legal Division; 

(f) Boards of Appeal; 

(g) an Enlarged Board of Appeal. 


13See opinion of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 1/02 (Annex I).

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