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

DVD Home => Info on patent granting procedure => Guide for applicants - Part 2 => HTML-version

 

D  /  E



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 ANNEX I Terms and abbreviations
II. What must the applicant do to initiate the European phase? I. General III. Filing of other documents
Search fee for supplementary European search Information on supplementary European search Reduction of the search fee

Search fee for supplementary European search


237

If a supplementary European search is to be performed, the European search fee must be paid within the 31-month time limit. For detailed information reference is made to the Notice from the EPO dated 28 October 2005.

R. 107(1)(e) EPC

Art. 2(2) RFees

OJ 2005, 577



 
Index:How to get a European patentII. What must the applicant do to initiate the European phase?Information on supplementary European searchReduction of the search fee

Espace LEGAL DVD | EPO web site

Last updated in April 2006 - version December-2005
Copyright © 1996-2006 European Patent Office . All Rights Reserved.
e-mail: EPO Mail Distribution