Statistics
One of the first requests for limitation was filed by Hewlett Packard by fax on December 13, 2007 (at about 7.30 am UTC or 8.30 am CET) to limit European patent EP 1333070 . The first B3 publication of a European patent specification after limitation proceedings was published on July 23, 2008 (as EP 0 591 199 B3). In the first year following the entry into force of the EPC 2000, 83 requests for limitation were filed. Of these, 72 were filed after the nine-month opposition period and 11 during the nine-month opposition period.
According to the blog Tufty the Cat, " average time taken between a request for limitation and the date on which the request is allowed is 202 days, with a standard deviation of 151 days".
Read more about this topic: Limitation And Revocation Procedures Before The European Patent Office
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