EUROPEAN PATENT CONVENTION - Table of Contents Implementing Regulations to the Convention on the Grant of European Patents PART I - IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS TO PART I OF THE CONVENTION Chapter I - General provisions   Rule 6 - Filing of translations and reduction of fees

Rule 6 Filing of translations and reduction of fees

Art. 14, 61, 78, 88, 90, 99, 105a, 105b, 108 R. 70

(1) A translation under Article 14, paragraph 2, shall be filed within two months of filing the European patent application.

(2) A translation under Article 14, paragraph 4, shall be filed within one month of filing the document. This shall also apply to requests under Article 105a. Where the document is a notice of opposition or appeal, or a statement of grounds of appeal, or a petition for review, the translation may be filed within the period for filing such a notice or statement or petition, if that period expires later.

(3)3 Where a person referred to in Article 14, paragraph 4, files a European patent application, a request for examination, an opposition, an appeal, a petition for review or a request for limitation or revocation in a language admitted in that provision, the filing fee, examination fee, opposition fee, appeal fee, fee for the petition for review or the limitation or revocation fee shall be reduced in accordance with the Rules relating to Fees.

3 See decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 6/91 (Annex I).