Guide for Applicants - Part 2:How to get a European patent: E. Euro-PCT procedure before the EPO as a designated (PCT Chapter I) or elected (PCT Chapter II)..., II. What must the applicant do to initiate the European phase?, Time limit for payment of designation fees

Guide for Applicants - Part 2
How to get a European patent

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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

Guide for Applicants - Part 2

E. Euro-PCT procedure before the EPO as a designated (PCT Chapter I) or elected (PCT Chapter II)...

D. The EPO as an International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA) - PCT Chapter II

II. What must the applicant do to initiate the European phase?

Time limit for payment of designation fees

Time limit for payment of designation fees

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The designation fees must be paid within 31 months of the filing date or, if priority has been claimed, the earliest priority date, or within six months of publication of the ISR, whichever time limit expires later. Therefore, unless the publication of the ISR was late, the designation fees will as a rule be due on entry into the European phase, ie within the 31-month time limit.