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The ‘joint applicants’ approach to PCT applications would provide an elegant solution to issues of who is entitled to priority claims in PCT applications, suggests Chiara Banas of EIP.
G1/22 and G2/22 are two pending referrals to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) regarding entitlement to priority. The two questions that were referred were:
- Does the European Patent Convention (EPC) confer jurisdiction on the European Patent Office (EPO) to determine whether a party validly claims to be a successor in title referred to in Article 87(1)(b) EPC?
- If question I is answered in the affirmative:
Can a party B validly rely on the priority right claimed in a PCT-application for the purpose of claiming priority rights under Article 87(1) EPC in the case where
- a PCT-application designates party A as applicant for the US only and party B as applicant for other designated States including regional European patent protection and
- the PCT-application claims priority from an earlier patent application that designates party A as the applicant and
- the priority claimed in the PCT-application is in compliance with Article 4 of the Paris Convention?
Article 87(1) EPC states that:
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