84:"The procedure concerning the divisional application is in principle independent from the procedure concerning the parent application and the divisional application is treated as a new application.... Although there are some connections between the two procedures (e.g. concerning time limits), actions (or omissions) occurring in the procedure concerning the parent application after the filing of the divisional application should not influence the procedure concerning the latter...."
62:"A divisional application is an application which derives from an earlier application. It is filed after the earlier application (usually some years later), but keeps the same filing and priority dates as the earlier application. That way the divisional is not affected in terms of its patentability by any publications which occur between the filing of the earlier application and the filing of the divisional. The earlier application is often referred to as the "parent"."
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amount of the additional fees was announced in
December 2013. The purpose of the additional fee is "to discourage the filing of long sequences of divisional applications", so as to also discourage "the prolongation of pendency periods". The "use of divisional applications as a tool for prolonging the pendency of subject-matter before the EPO" has been regarded by the EPO as "detrimental to legal certainty for third parties as well as to patent office workloads".
181:. "Mandatory" in that sense means that, to cover each of the non-unitary inventions (i.e. the inventions that are non-unitary in relation to the invention which will be the subject of the parent application), one or more divisional applications need to be filed. However, if the applicant decides not to seek patent protection for the non-unitary inventions, no divisional applications need to be filed.
269:"An application which has been deemed to be withdrawn for non-payment of a renewal fee is not pending within the meaning of Rule 25(1) EPC 1973 in the period for filing a request for re-establishment of rights under Article 122 EPC 1973 in respect of such non-payment or in the period after which such an application is filed in the event of such request being refused."
681:"Decision of the Administrative Council of 13 December 2013 amending Article 2 of the Rules relating to Fees and adjusting the amount of the reduction in the fee for the supplementary European search where the international or supplementary international search report was drawn up by one of the European International Searching Authorities (CA/D 14/13)"
147:"divisional applications on the applicant's own initiative (so-called voluntary divisional applications) will need to be filed within a period of two years from the first communication by the EPO examining division in respect of the parent (i.e. the previous) or an even earlier (in case of a "chain" of applications) application."
165:(b) the divisional application is filed before the expiry of a time limit of twenty-four months from any communication in which the Examining Division has objected that the earlier application does not meet the requirements of Article 82, provided it was raising that specific objection for the first time."
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Prior to 1 April 2010, it was only required that the parent application be pending at the time the divisional application is filed. A divisional application of a
European patent application could be filed for any pending application up to the day preceding the mention of grant of the European patent,
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The filing of a
European divisional application with a national authority (such as a national patent office) has no effect in law. The national authority may however, as a service, choose to forward the divisional application to the EPO. If the authority does so, the divisional application is deemed
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As mentioned above, a divisional application can only be filed based on a pending
European patent application. Several Board of Appeal decisions have dealt with the meaning of a "pending earlier European application" (Rule 36(1) EPC: "The applicant may file a divisional application relating to any
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again amended Rules 36, 38 and 135 of the
Implementing Regulations, which define the time limits for filing divisional applications in Europe. The new rules apply to divisional applications filed on or after 1 April 2014. According to the new rules, the filing of divisional patent applications is
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An additional fee is however due "in the case of a divisional application filed in respect of any earlier application which is itself a divisional application". In other words, an additional fee for the filing of divisional applications of the second or any further generation was introduced. The
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European Patent Convention in the 1970s, and changed again on 1 April 2010. What has not been changed however is that a divisional
261:"In the case where no appeal is filed, a European patent application which has been refused by a decision of the Examining Division is thereafter still pending within the meaning of Rule 25 EPC 1973 (Rule 36(1) EPC) until the expiry of the time limit for filing a notice of appeal."
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39:(EPC) require something different. A divisional application, which is divided from an earlier application, cannot be broader than the earlier application, neither in terms of subject-matter nor in terms of geographical cover.
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106:No extension of geographical scope
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1083:European Patent Convention (EPC)
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130:Situation prior to 1 April 2010
522:of 9 November 2004, Reasons 3.
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