EPO opens public user consultation on EPC and PCT-EPO Guidelines

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The European Patent Office (EPO) has opened a public user consultation on its guidelines for examination in the European Patent Office (EPC Guidelines) and its guidelines for search and examination at the European Patent Office as PCT Authority (PCT-EPO Guidelines), which have just entered into force. The EPC Guidelines and PCT-EPO Guidelines provide instructions ‘on the practices and procedures to be followed in the examination of European and international applications and patents in accordance with the European Patent Convention (EPC), the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and their Implementing Regulations’. The deadline for responses is 12 April 2021.