European Patent Office

Article 5

Citation: OJ EPO 2024, A5

Online publication date: 31.1.2024

EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE
Information from the EPO

Decision of the President of the European Patent Office dated 25 January 2024 revising the Office's fees and expenses

Article 1

Pursuant to Article 3(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 2024.

Article 3

This decision shall enter into force on 1 April 2024.

Done at Munich, 25 January 2024

António Campinos

President

Code

Nature of fee

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)

 

 

1.1 Requested using MyEPO Portfolio*

0

022

1.2 For all other cases

120

 

2. Registration of licences and other rights or cancellation of such a registration (R. 23 EPC)

 

 

2.1 Requested using MyEPO Portfolio*

0

023

2.2 For all other cases

120

 

3. 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),
  • the European patent certificate with specification attached (R. 74 EPC) or
  • other documents

 

 

3.1 Requested using MyEPO Portfolio*

0

029

3.2 For all other cases

120

 

4. Online inspection of the files of European patent applications and patents

0

 

2.2 Fees and charges for various searches

 

 

1. Fee for an international-type search1 (Art. 15(5) PCT)

 

004
  • 1.1 For first filings

1 415

004
  • 1.2 For all other cases

2 210

066

2. Fee for the late furnishing of a sequence listing (R. 13ter.1(c), R. 13ter.2 PCT)2

265

 

 

* Editorial note: this decision as initially published used the term "MyEPO". To avoid any misunderstanding, it was clarified that this term should be read as "MyEPO Portfolio" (see corrigendum published in OJ EPO 2024, A30).

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

2 See Article 4 of the decision of the President of the EPO dated 28 April 2011 (OJ EPO 2011, 372).