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Guidelines for Examination in the EPO

Guidelines for Examination - Table of Contents  
PART A GUIDELINES FOR FORMALITIES EXAMINATION General Part PART B  
CHAPTER IV SPECIAL PROVISIONS CHAPTER III EXAMINATION OF FORMAL REQUIREMENTS CHAPTER V COMMUNICATING THE FORMALITIES REPORT; AMENDMENT OF APPLICATION; CORRECTION OF ERRORS  
1. European divisional applications (see also C-VI, 9.1)   2. Art. 61 applications  
1.4 Fees 1.3 Filing a divisional application 1.5 Designation of the inventor  
1.4.2 Claims fees 1.4.1 Filing, search and designation fees 1.4.3 Renewal fees  

1.4.2

Claims fees

 

If, at the time of filing the first set of claims, the divisional application comprises more than ten claims, a claims fee is payable in respect of each claim over and above that number. Claims fees are payable even if in the parent application they were paid in respect of claims relating to the subject-matter now the subject of the divisional application (see III, 9).

Rule 45(1)




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