INFORMATION FROM THE EPO
Processing of documents filed by fax with the EPO at The Hague
To streamline and harmonise workflow, the European Patent Office has decided to re-route faxes sent to the fax number in The Hague (+31-70) 340 30 16 to a central fax server located in Munich, where all faxes will be processed as from 12 April 2006. New European patent applications filed by fax will receive an application number from the Munich number range (see OJ EPO 2001, 465), even if they are sent to the EPO fax number in The Hague. For further inquiries concerning documents transmitted by fax, please call (+49-89) 23 99 44 31. Indicating the number of pages transmitted helps us to process faxed documents efficiently.