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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 XI FEES CHAPTER X DRAWINGS CHAPTER XII INSPECTION OF FILES; COMMUNICATION OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN FILES; CONSULTATION OF THE REGISTER OF EUROPEAN PATENTS; ISSUANCE OF CERTIFIED COPIES  
10. Refund of fees 9. Reduction of fees    
10.2 Special refunds 10.1 General remarks 10.3 Method of refund  
10.2.5 Refund of the international preliminary examination fee 10.2.4 Refund of the examination fee 10.2.6 Refund pursuant to Rule 37(2)  

10.2.5

Refund of the international preliminary examination fee
 

For international applications filed on or after 1 January 2004 the EPO has discontinued the rationalised international preliminary examination procedure (OJ 11/2001, 539). Consequently, no request for ''detailed'' examination will be required, and the fee refund for the rationalised procedure is no longer available.

 

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