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From Thursday 26.11.2020, 08:00 h. (CET) until
Friday 27.11.2020, 11:00 (CET) there was an unplanned outage (reference
no. 1279522) of new online filing (CMS). During this outage of CMS there was another
unplanned outage in all online services (reference no. 1279907) from Thursday 26.11.2020 23:25
h. (CET) until Friday 27.11.2020, 01:15 h. (CET).
Users are informed that all time limits in the procedures
under the EPC expiring on 26 and 27 November 2020 are extended in accordance
with Rule 134(1) EPC until the following working day, i.e. 30 November 2020.
Time limits
expiring on these dates in proceedings before the EPO in the international
phase are also extended in accordance with Rule 82quater.2 PCT until 30
November 2020.
Users are requested to always mention the reference
number of the outage they are referring to in any contact with the EPO in this
matter.