EUROPE
September 22, 2025
Starting October 1, 2025, the European Patent Office (EPO) will allow European patent application figures to be in color or grayscale, as long as the application is submitted electronically and meets a series of requirements. This is an important and long-awaited change that relaxes the previous requirement: European patent applications could only include black and white drawings. Color drawings in patent applications Specifically, the new regulations state ...
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