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The European Patent Convention issue July 2002 is now available for download as fully bookmarked PDF file. To consult the most up-to-date version of the EPC, please use the files in HTML format. The files in PDFormat contain the latest printed edition of the EPC, ie without amendments adopted by the Administrative Council since the printed edition was published.

In order to work with PDF documents you need to have the software Acrobat Reader® (version 4 or higher is recommended) installed on your system. The browser plugin may be downloaded for free from the Adobe website.

In case you want to save the file directly to your disk and know how to work with compressed files, we recommend to download the EPC as ZIP-file.



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