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Dear dk77, this forum is not the right place to give legal advice or to replace legal professionals. You will find all the answers to your question in http://www.epo.org/patents/Grant-procedure/Filing-an-application/European-applications/Guide-for-applicants.html As Kelly pointed out - there is no e...

Hi Flo, I noticed that there was no indication of 'Madagascar only' on any of the applicants - I assume that "III-1-2 Applicant for" should have been 'MD' instead of 'all designation states'. I tested v4 and future v5 as to whether or not the template would work - and it generally works fi...

Hi Flo,

in order to fully assess the issue, are these only PCT/FR submissions or PCT/EP submission? Can you give any specific PCT application number so that I can investigate the details of your submission i.e. if the Madagascar only selection is actually in your submission.

Thanks,
Thorsten

Please note that for the German national procedure (DE2007) a new field be added in OLF v5 in the representative mask for the general authorisation number. This number will be stored in the XML as elemend <iid> and will appear on the de-request.pdf at the top where general authorisation is indicated...

Dear Jens, so far, users have not had a problem with the submissions you describe. The attachment options change once the role of the respective party is identified i.e. if you select 'other actions' and under Names a natural or legal proprietor - you'll see that under the documents options (see als...

Appears to be an issue of network configuration with your proxy server. One possible source of error: the proxy settings are normally set for the global OLF system in the server manager BUT every user can choose in their own user preferences in OLF to either use this global setting or to use an indi...

Salut Flo, the additional fee sheet is titled 'Internal fee sheet' and is for your own internal purpose only - i.e. the information has no value for the EPO. This sheet will only be generated when payment mode is 'not specified' as all in all other cases the payment mode and associated fee details a...

Dear LOFteam, when opening XML, there several options: Opening it in IExplorer will give you the error you describe as it cannot located the DTD - but this is the wrong place anyway as IExplorer only allows you to view things (menu option View->Source would also show you the code). A better alternat...

Dear LOFTeam, unfortunately, this issue came about when assigning a read-only property to the states in order to not give users an impression that this would still be possible. We try to address this generally in the future version 5. But in the meantime, what can be done is to export the template (...