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National law relating to the EPC May th edition Contents A Introduction B Abbreviations I National legal bases II Filing of European patent applications pursuant to Article b and EPC III A Rights conferred by a European patent application after publication pursuant to Article EPC Article EPC III B Translations for obtaining provisional protection pursuant to Article EPC IV Translation requirements after grant Article EPC V Authentic text of a European patent application or European patent Article EPC VI Payment of renewal fees for European patents VII Conversion of European patent applications or patents into national patent applications VIII Payment of fees IX Registering a transfer licences and other rights in respect of a European patent in the national patent register X Miscellaneous CPublished and edited by European Patent O ?ce Directorate Erhardtstra? e D- München Address for orders preferably to be sent to the Vienna sub-o ?ce European Patent O ?ce Headquarters Information O ?ce Munich Germany Tel - Fax - Branch at The Hague Information O ?ce Postbus HV Rijswijk Netherlands Tel - Fax - Berlin sub-o ?ce Information O ?ce Berlin Germany Tel - Fax - Vienna sub-o ?ce Information O ?ce Postfach Vienna Austria Tel - Fax - E-mail Internet bookorder epo org www epo org ? European Patent O ?ce ISBN - - - - O ?prints and reproduction All copyright and publication rights are reserved This legal protection also applies to use in data banks Printing AZ Druck und Datentechnik GmbH Kempten Germany CIntroduction European patent system The centralised fundamentally autonomous and uniform procedure for the grant of European patents introduced by the European Patent Convention EPC is linked in a special way with the national patent law of the member states of the European Patent Organisation and at a number of stages it interfaces with the national legal systems - a feature essential to smooth interaction between European and national law In each of the contracting states for which it is granted the European patent has the e ?ect of and is subject to the same conditions as a national patent granted by that state unless otherwise provided in the EPC Article EPC The salient characteristic of these interfaces is that at the outset or in the course of the European grant procedure or after it has been completed the patent applicant or proprietor may or must take certain steps before the patent authorities of the contracting states in order to acquire or maintain certain rights in those states It is therefore of primordial importance for all European applicants and proprietors to be familiar with and carefully observe such procedural steps laid down by national law and the conditions for their validity if full advantage is to be derived from the European patent system and loss of rights is to be avoided This booklet is intended by the European Patent O ?ce as a concise and reliable guide to the most important provisions and requirements of the national law of the contracting states