EURO – PCT APPLICATION, AMENDMENTS OF THE APPLICATION ON ENTRY INTO EUROPEAN PHASE WITH RESPECT OF AVOIDING SOME EPO OFFICIAL FEES

According to rule 159 of the European Patent Convention (EPC) Implementing Regulations (IR) and other EPO regulations, on entry  of the PCT Application into European phase the applicant has to specify the application documents, as originally filed or as amended, on which the European grant procedure is to be based.

Based on this regulation , on entry into European phase the applicant can make amendments of its patent application.

In this respect the applicant can reduce the total number of pages of its patent application to maximum 35 pages in order to avoid payment of the EPO Additional  fee for 36th and each subsequent page (18,- EUR per page)

and can reduce the number of claims in its patent application to maximum 15 claims in order to avoid  payment of the EPO Claims fee which amounts

275,,- EUR for the 16th and each subsequent claim to the limit of 50 claims and
685,- EUR Claims fee - For the 51st and each subsequent claim

(The amounts of the EPO Official fees are given according to the actually valid EPO Schedule of fees. EPO makes updates of its Schedule of fees each year) .

Prepared February 6th, 2025

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