Guidelines for Examination:PART A: CHAPTER XI FEES

Guidelines for Examination
PART A
CHAPTER XI FEES

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CHAPTER X DRAWINGS

CHAPTER X DRAWINGS

CHAPTER XII INSPECTION OF FILES; COMMUNICATION OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN FILES; CONSULTATION OF THE...

CHAPTER XII INSPECTION OF FILES; COMMUNICATION OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN FILES; CONSULTATION OF THE...

2. Methods of payment

3. Date considered as date on which payment is made

3.1 Payment or transfer to a bank or giro account held by the European Patent Organisation

3.2 Delivery or remittance of a cheque made payable to the EPO

3.3 Deposit accounts with the EPO

3.3.1 General remarks

3.3.2 Inpayments to replenish a deposit account

3.3.3 Debiting the deposit account

3.3.4 Date of receipt of the debit order; insufficient funds

3.4 Automatic debiting procedure

4. Due date for fees

4.1.2 Amount of the fee

4.2 Due date for specific fees

4.2.1 Filing fee, search fee, designation fee, claims fees

4.2.2 Examination fee

4.2.3 Fees for grant and printing

4.2.4 Renewal fees

6. Payment in due time

6.1 Basic principle

6.2 Ten-day fail-safe arrangement

6.2.1 Requirements

6.2.2 Application of the ten-day fail-safe arrangement to replenishment of deposit account

6.2.3 Debit orders

6.2.4 Payment of fee at the normal fee rate

6.2.5 Amount of fee payable

6.2.6 Noting of loss of rights

7. Purpose of payment

7.1.1 Condition for valid payment

7.1.2 Purpose of payment

7.2 Indication of the purpose of the payment in the case of designation fees

7.3 Indication of the purpose of payment in the case of claims fees

7.3.1 Claims fees payable on filing the European patent application

7.3.2 Claims fees payable before the grant of the European patent

8. No deferred payment of fees, no legal aid, no discretion

9. Reduction of fees

9.2 Reduction under the language arrangements

9.2.1 Conditions

9.2.2 Reduction of the filing fee

9.2.3 Reduction of the examination fee

9.2.4 Reduction of the opposition fee

9.2.5 Reduction of the appeal fee

9.3 Special reductions

9.3.1 Reduction of the search fee for a supplementary European search

9.3.2 Reduction of the examination fee where the international preliminary examination report is being...

9.3.3 Reduction of the fees for the international search and international preliminary examination of an...

10. Refund of fees

10.1 General remarks

10.1.1 Fee payments lacking a legal basis

10.1.2 Fee payments which are not valid

10.1.3 Insignificant amounts

10.2 Special refunds

10.2.1 Refund of the search fee

10.2.2 Refund of the further search fee

10.2.3 Refund of the international search fee

10.2.4 Refund of the examination fee

10.2.5 Refund of the international preliminary examination fee

10.2.6 Refund pursuant to Art. 77(5)

10.2.7 Refund of claims fees and of the fees for grant and printing

10.3 Method of refund

10.4 Person to whom refund is payable

10.5 Re-allocation instead of refund