16/07/10
Statistics for EPO Oppositions and Appeals – Update
This article provides an update to our March 2008 publication on EPO opposition and appeal statistics. The EPO publishes these figures annually in the Annual Report and in a Special Edition of the Official Journal. Although the Annual Report for 2009 has been published, containing all of the opposition and some of the appeal statistics for that year, the remainder of the 2009 appeal statistics will be published later this year in the Official Journal. Thus the most recent statistics, for 2008 and/or 2009, are presented in the full article which can be downloaded below.