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Jérémy BENSOUSSAN: Member of the Paris Bar, engineer and graduate of CEIPI brevet, Lexing Alain Bensoussan Avocats
INTRODUCTION
European patent applications can be filed in three different ways:
filing can be made directly with the European Patent Office (EPO);
it can still be filed with a national receiving office if the domestic law of that State so permits (with the INPI in France);
finally, it can take the form of an "international" application – filed in accordance with the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) –, which will then be forwarded to the EPO; the resulting patent application is known as a Euro-PCT.
The aim of this sheet is to explain the different options for filing a European patent application.
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