{"id":2952,"date":"2020-12-01T06:27:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T05:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maiwald.eu\/all\/maiwald-blog\/gb-patent-applications-compliance-period\/"},"modified":"2022-03-23T12:21:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T11:21:44","slug":"gb-patent-applications-compliance-period","status":"publish","type":"maiwald-blog","link":"https:\/\/www.maiwald.eu\/en\/maiwald-blog\/gb-patent-applications-compliance-period\/","title":{"rendered":"GB Patent Applications: Compliance Period"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Acceptance deadlines provide that a patent application will be deemed to have been rejected, if it has not been accepted for grant by a particular date (often 12 months after the issuance of the first substantive examination report). The UK Patents Act does not explicitly mention acceptance deadlines; however, the <em>Compliance Period<\/em> detailed in section 20(1) and Rule 30 serves the same purpose:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the patent application has not been accepted by this date, the application will be refused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How long?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The compliance period expires 54 months after the earliest priority date of the application, or 12 months after the issuance of the First Examination Report, whichever date is later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UK IPO currently aims to prioritise examination of applications approaching the end of their compliance period, allowing for a faster exchange of reports\/replies between the applicant and examiner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The compliance period can be extended by two months upon request and payment of a fee. Further extensions may be granted at the discretion of the Examiner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Divisional Applications?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Divisional Applications are subject to the same compliance period as the parent application, meaning that no extra time can be gained by filing a divisional application. Divisional Applications should therefore be filed sooner rather than later;<em> <\/em>however, no later than 3 months before the expiry of the compliance period of the parent application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2952","maiwald-blog","type-maiwald-blog","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiwald.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/maiwald-blog\/2952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiwald.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/maiwald-blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiwald.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/maiwald-blog"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.maiwald.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/maiwald-blog\/2952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16349,"href":"https:\/\/www.maiwald.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/maiwald-blog\/2952\/revisions\/16349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiwald.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}