Breaking news on the EPO position on divisional patent applications
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Breaking news on the EPO position on divisional patent applications
We have read on a number of difference sources that the EPO has finally bowed to almost constant pressure to abolish the two year deadline from the first office action in which to file a divisional application. We are told that the rules will be amended to specify only that the application to be divided ‘must be pending’. Good news for applicants previously forced into making a decision regarding divisional applications before knowing the outcome of the parent patent prosecution.