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Notice from the European Patent Office dated 7 July 2010 concerning inventions which involve the use of or concern biological material
The present Notice is intended to update and consolidate the information given in the “Notice of the EPO dated 18 July 1986 concerning European patent applications and European patents in which reference is made to micro-organisms” (OJ EPO 1986, 269) with the “Notice of the President of the EPO dated 28 July 1981 concerning the procedure for informing the EPO that the ‘expert’ option (Rule 28, paragraph 4, EPC) has been chosen, and the publication of that fact” (OJ EPO 1981, 358), the notice regarding “Conversion of deposits of micro-organisms made outside the purview of the Budapest Treaty to deposits made within the purview of the Budapest Treaty” (OJ EPO 1991, 461) and the “Notice dated 1 October 1996 concerning the main amendments to Rules 28 and 28a EPC” (OJ EPO 1996, 596).
本通知は、過去に出した色々な通知をアップデートし、まとめたものである。
A. Disclosure of biological material
I. European patent applications
1. Applications to which the special requirements with regard to biological material apply
バイオ材料に関する特別規定が適用される出願
2. Deposit, conversion and new deposit of biological material (Rules 31(1)(a) and 34 EPC)
寄託
3. Information with regard to the biological material and the deposit to be given in the application, in particular in case of a deposit by a person other than the applicant
寄託情報の明細書中への記載。特に第三者が寄託を行った場合
4. Choice of the expert solution under Rule 32 EPC
expert solutionを選択すること
II. International patent applications designating or electing the EPO
国際出願の場合
B. Availability of biological material deposited in accordance with Rule 31 EPC
寄託された材料の入手可能性
C. Previous Notices from the EPO superseded
以前の通知は、本通知で上書きされる。
The present Notice shall supersede as from 1 January 2011
本通知は、2011/1/1から適用