Article 124

INFORMATION FROM THE CONTRACTING STATES/ EXTENSION AND VALIDATION STATES

LT Lithuania

New national fee rates in euros

Lithuania will introduce the euro as its sole currency as from 1 January 20151, and the State Patent Bureau of the Republic of Lithuania has informed us of its new patent fees in that currency.

Applicants for and proprietors of European patents with effect in Lithuania are therefore advised that from 1 January 2015 the following rates apply:

1. Publication of translations of the claims pursuant to Article 67(3) EPC or Article 65 EPC:

EUR 46 plus EUR 14 for the 16th and each subsequent claim

Publication of amended claims: EUR 34

2. Renewal fees:

Fee for a request for restitutio in integrum: EUR 173

3. Conversion of European patent applications or patents into national patent applications or patents:

National filing fee (EUR 86 plus EUR 14 for the 16th and each subsequent claim)

4. Registering transfers, licences and other rights:

transfer of title: EUR 115

licence: EUR 28

EPO information brochure "National law relating to the EPC"

Users of this brochure (16th edition) should amend Tables III.B, column 2, IV, column 5, VI, columns 1 and 5, VII, column 2, and IX, column 4 accordingly.