PART 5EUROPEAN PATENTS (UK)

Conversion requests

Procedure for making a conversion request under section 81(2)(b)(ii)59

1

The period prescribed for the purposes of section 81(2)(b)(ii) is twenty months F1beginning immediately after

a

where there is no declared priority date, the date of filing of the application; or

b

where there is a declared priority date, that date.

2

Where a request, transmitted under section 81(2)(b)(ii), has been received by the comptroller, he must notify the applicant accordingly.

3

Where a request has been transmitted under section 81(2)(b)(ii), the period prescribed for the purposes of sections 13(2), 15(10)(d) and 81(2)(c) is four months F2beginning immediately after the date of that notification.