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Guide for applicants, Part 2: PCT procedure before the EPO (Euro-PCT Guide)

 
 
Table of Contents - Guide for applicants, Part 2: PCT procedure before the EPO (Euro-PCT Guide)
E. Euro-PCT procedure before the EPO as a designated (PCT Chapter I) or elected (PCT Chapter II) Office
X. Examination
Reduction if IPER was issued by the EPO
Reduction if IPER was issued by the EPO
589
The examination fee is reduced by 50% where the EPO acting as IPEA has already drawn up an international preliminary examination report in respect of the relevant Euro-PCT application, unless in the European phase the applicant is seeking a patent for an invention which is not the subject of that report (see points 382 and 392 ff).
Art. 14(2) RFees
GL/EPO A-X, 9.3.2
590
If the conditions for both reductions (see points 587-589) are fulfilled, the examination fee is first reduced by 50%. The 20% reduction is applied to the resulting total and not to the full fee. Therefore, the total reduction in relation to the full fee is 60%.