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Chapter III – The European Patent Office

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Article 16 – Receiving Section

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 1614
Receiving Section

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

The Receiving Section shall be responsible for the examination on filing and the examination as to formal requirements of European patent applications.


14Amended by the Act revising the European Patent Convention of 29.11.2000.

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