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Chapter III – The European Patent Office

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Article 17 – Search Divisions

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 1715
Search Divisions

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

The Search Divisions shall be responsible for drawing up European search reports.


15Amended by the Act revising the European Patent Convention of 29.11.2000.

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