European Patent Office

Pages 616-618

Citation: OJ EPO 2009, 616

Online publication date: 31.12.2009

FEES

Decision of the President of the European Patent Office dated 15 November 2009 revising the Office's fees and expenses

Article 1

Pursuant to Article 3, paragraph 1, of the Rules relating to Fees, the amount of the administrative fees provided for in the Implementing Regulations and the fees and expenses for any services rendered by the European Patent Office other than those specified in Article 2 of the Rules relating to Fees shall be revised as shown in the following extract from the schedule of fees. The extract from the fees schedule shall form part of this decision.

Article 2

The fees and expenses as revised in accordance with Article 1 shall be binding on payments made on or after 1 April 2010.

Article 3

This decision shall enter into force on 1 April 2010.

Done at Munich, 15 November 2009

Alison BRIMELOW

President

 

Applicable as from 1 April 2010
Nature of fee

Code

amount EUR

2

Fees and expenses (Article 3(1) of the Rules relating to Fees)

 

 

2.1

Administrative fees/expenses

 

 

1

Registration of transfers
(R. 22(2) EPC)

022

90,00

2

Registration of licences and other rights
(R. 23(1) EPC)

023

90,00

3

Cancellation of entry in respect of licences and other rights
(R. 23(2) EPC)

024

90,00

4

Certified copies of the European patent certificate with specification attached
(R. 74 EPC)

025

45,00

5

Extracts from the European Patent Register

 

026

 

35,00

6

Online inspection of the files of European patent applications and patents

 

free
  • for each A4 page printed (available only by self-service on European Patent Office premises)

 

0,35

7.1

Charge for furnishing paper copies (up to 100 A4 pages) or an electronic storage medium for file inspection
(R. 145(2) EPC)

 

45,00
  • surcharge per A4 page over 100

027

0,45

7.2

Additional charge for sending copies by fax, per page

059

 
  • in Europe

 

4,00
  • outside Europe

 

5,50

8.1

Issue of a certified copy of a European patent application or an international application and a certificate stating the filing date (priority document)
(R. 54 EPC; R. 17.1(b), R. 21.2 PCT)

029

45,00

8.2

Certification of other documents

080

45,00

9.1

Communication of information contained in the files of a European patent application
(R. 146 EPC)

030

35,00

9.2

Additional charge per page for transmission by fax

059

 
  • in Europe

 

4,00
  • outside Europe

 

5,50

11

Additional copy of the documents cited in the European search report

 

055

 

35,00

12

Basic fee for the European qualifying examination for professional representatives
(Art. 17 REE, Rules 7-9 IPREE)
OJ EPO 2009, 334

054

120,00

13

Issue of receipts by fax (OJ EPO 1992, 310)

031

 
  • in Europe

 

50,00
  • outside Europe

 

75,00

14

Copies of EPO documents, per page (A4)

 

 
  • copied by EPO staff

 

0,75
  • self-service

 

0,35

 

 

Applicable as from 1 April 2010
Nature of fee

Code

amount EUR

2.2

Fees and charges for various searches

 

 

1

Fee for an international-type search1
OJ EPO 1999, 300

 

 

1.1

For first filings

 

1 090,00

1.2

For all other cases

 

1 705,00

2

Fee for the late furnishing of sequence listing
(R. 13ter.1(c), R. 13ter.2 PCT
OJ EPO 2005, 225

066

210,00

 

 

1 Payable unless different terms have been agreed between the European Patent Organisation and a Contracting State to the European Patent Convention.