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How to get a European patent
A. General overview
B. The EPO as a PCT receiving Office
C. The EPO as an International Searching Authority
D. The EPO as an International Preliminary Examining Authority
E. Euro-PCT procedure before the EPO as a designated or elected Office
Annexes
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Refund of the fee for international preliminary examination
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Where the international application or the demand for international preliminary examination is withdrawn before examination has commenced and within 30 months from the priority date, the applicant is refunded 75% of the fee for international preliminary examination. If the demand is deemed not to have been submitted or the fee was paid by mistake, the fee is refunded in full. Any amount paid in excess of the amount due is likewise refunded.
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R. 57.6, R. 58.3 PCT
Agreement EPO-WIPO, Annex C-II
OJ 2001, 601
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Only for applications filed before 1 January 2004 and only if the applicant is content with a rationalised preliminary examination procedure are two-thirds of the fee for international preliminary examination refunded (see point 150).
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Art. 10d RFees
OJ 2001, 539
OJ 2004, 305
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