Guidelines for Examination:PART A: CHAPTER XI FEES, 2. Methods of payment

Guidelines for Examination
PART A
CHAPTER XI FEES
2. Methods of payment

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PART A
CHAPTER XI FEES

1. General

2a. Currencies

2.	Methods of payment

Fees may be paid in the following ways:

Art. 5 RFees

(i)	by payment or transfer to a bank or giro account held by the EPO;

(ii)	by delivery or remittance of cheques made payable to the EPO;

(iii)

by debiting a deposit account opened in the records of the EPO in Munich (see XI, 3.3 and XI, 3.4);

Neither the PCT, nor the EPC allows for payment of any fee due by way of compensation (offset) with any fee to be refunded.

By way of exception, certain fees and costs at the Munich Information Office, namely for photocopies made by the EPO staff or by the requester in the course of file inspection or for purchases of patent information products, other copies of EPO documents and publications, may also be paid by credit card (Decision of the President of the EPO dated 21 January 2002, OJ 3/2002, 162).