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The search fee for a supplementary European search report is reduced for PCT applications for which the Patent Office of the USA, Japan, China, Australia, Russia or Korea was the International Searching Authority. In these cases, the supplementary search fee is reduced by a fixed amount (see OJ EPO 2005, 548).
The search fee for a supplementary European search report is also reduced by a fixed amount for PCT applications for which the Patent Office of Austria, Finland, Spain or Sweden or the Nordic Patent Institute was the International Searching Authority (see OJ EPO 2009, 587) or where one of these offices prepared the supplementary international search report (see OJ EPO 2009, 595).
PCT applications for which the Patent Office of Canada or Brazil was the International Searching Authority do not qualify for any reduction in the supplementary search fee (see OJ EPO 2010, 133).