EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE
Fees
Decision of the President of the European Patent Office dated 13 December 2013 revising the Office's fees and expenses
Article 1
Pursuant to Article 3, paragraph 1, of the Rules relating to Fees, the amount of the administrative fees provided for in the Implementing Regulations and the fees and expenses for any services rendered by the European Patent Office other than those specified in Article 2 of the Rules relating to Fees shall be revised as shown in the following extract from the schedule of fees. The extract from the fees schedule shall form part of this decision.
Article 2
The fees and expenses as revised in accordance with Article 1 shall be binding on payments made on or after 1 April 2014.
Article 3
This decision shall enter into force on 1 April 2014.
Done at Munich, 13 December 2013
Benoît BATTISTELLI
President
Code | Applicable as from 1 April 2014 | Amount |
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2. Fees and expenses (Article 3(1) of the Rules relating to Fees) |
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2.1 Administrative fees/ expenses |
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022 |
1. Registering of transfer (R. 22(2) EPC) |
100,00 |
023 |
2. Registering of licences and other rights (R. 23(1) EPC) |
100,00 |
024 |
3. Cancellation of entry in respect of licences and other rights (R. 23(2) EPC) |
100,00 |
025 |
4. Certified copies of the European patent certificate with specification attached (R. 74 EPC) |
50,00 |
026 |
5. Extracts from the European Patent Register |
40,00 |
– |
6. Online inspection of the files of European patent applications and patents |
free |
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0,40 |
– |
7.1 Charge for furnishing paper copies (up to 100 A4 pages) or an electronic storage medium for file inspection (R. 145(2) EPC) |
50,00 |
027 |
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0,50 |
059 |
7.2 Additional charge for sending copies by fax, per page |
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4,75 |
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6,25 |
029 |
8.1 Issue of a certified copy of a European patent application or an international application and a certificate stating the filing date (priority document) (R. 54 EPC; R. 17.1(b), R. 21.2 PCT) |
50,00 |
080 |
8.2 Certification of other documents |
50,00 |
030 |
9.1 Communication of information contained in the files of a European patent application (R. 146 EPC) |
40,00 |
059 |
9.2 Additional charge per page for transmission by fax |
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4,75 |
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6,25 |
055 |
11. Additional copy of the documents cited in the European search report |
40,00 |
031 |
13. Issue of receipts by fax (OJ EPO 1992, 310) |
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55,00 |
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85,00 |
– |
14. Copies of EPO documents, per page (A4) |
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0,80 |
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0,40 |
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2.2 Fees and charges for various searches |
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1. Fee for an international-type search1 (Art. 15(5) PCT) |
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– |
1.1 For first filings |
1 195,00 |
– |
1.2 For all other cases |
1 870,00 |
066 |
2. Fee for the late furnishing of sequence listing2 (R. 13ter.1(c), R. 13ter.2 PCT). |
230,00 |
1 Payable unless different terms have been agreed between the European Patent Organisation and a contracting state to the European Patent Convention.
2 See Article 4 of the decision of the President of the EPO dated 28 April 2011 (OJ EPO 2011, 372).