Issue 06/2006 of the Official Journal of the EPO has been Published on the EPO Website.
Today, Issue 06/2006 of the Official Journal of the EPO has been published on the EPO website. Inter alia, a Communication from the Enlarged Board of Appeal concerning case G 2/06 is published therein. Moreover, the Decision of the Legal Board of Appeal dated 27 April 2005 (J 25/03 - 3.1.01) is printed. In the headnote the decision states that a request for retraction of a letter of withdrawal of a patent application is no longer possible if the withdrawal has been mentioned in the Register of European Patents at the time its retraction is applied for if, in the circumstances of the case, even after a file inspection there would not have been any reason for a third party to suspect, at the time of the official notification to the public, that the withdrawal could be erroneous and later retracted.