\"The right of priority can be based only on the first application for the same industrial property right which must have been filed in a member country. It is therefore not possible to follow a first application by a second, possibly improved application and then to use that second application as a basis of priority. The reason for this rule is obvious: one cannot permit an endless chain of successive claims of priority for the same subject, as this could, in fact, considerably prolong the term of protection for that subject.\"
// Guideline C-V-1.4 First Application
The filing date of the \"first application\" must be claimed as a priority, i.e. the application disclosing for the first time any or all of the subject-matter of the European application. If it is found that the application to which the priority claim is directed is in fact not the first application in this sense, but some or all of the subject-matter was disclosed in a still earlier application filed by the same applicant or his predecessor in title, the priority claim is invalid insofar as the subject-matter was already disclosed in the still earlier application (see V, 1.4.1). //
如果说ulix君引用的上面第一段,只是说到要求过优先权的主题不能作为优先权的基础的话,那么斜风细雨君引用的第二段就清楚地规定了“首次”的外延。虽然第一段来自巴约,第二段来自欧专局的指南,但它们是一脉相承的。
谢谢斜风细雨君!也谢谢各位参与讨论的朋友! |