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New EPO Fees Structure as of 1 April 2009
13/02/2009
As foreshadowed in our website notice of 4 January 2008, the EPO has introduced a new fee structure due to come into force on 1 April 2009. A Notice from the EPO dated 26 January 2009 sets out the implementation of the new fee structure.
The Notice from the EPO is published at: http://www.epo.org/patents/law/legal-texts/InformationEPO/archiveinfo/20090126.html
As of 1st April 2009, applicants that file applications with a large number of pages and/or a large number of claims will be heavily penalised by the EPO. The new fee structure applies to all European patent applications, including divisional applications, filed on or after 1 April 2009 and to all international applications entering the European regional phase on or after that date. It may be possible to file applications that will be affected by the new fees structure before 1 April 2009 in order to avoid some of the new fees, as explained below.
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