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?, Reduction of the examination fee

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

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

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

Reduction of the examination fee

Result of supplementary search and refund of examination fee

Reduction of the examination fee

254	Applicants having their residence or principal place of business in an EPC contracting state having a language other than English, French or German as an official language, and nationals of that state who are resident abroad, are entitled to a 20% reduction in the examination fee on condition that

Art. 14(4) EPC

R. 6(2) EPC and R. 6(3) EPC

Art. 12(1) RFees

they file the written request for examination (up to the date of payment of the examination fee) in one of the official languages of this state other than English, French or German, and

within one month of so doing - at the earliest simultaneously with the written request for examination (Form 1200) - file a translation in the language of the proceedings (see point 175).