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R.39 EPC Designation fees

(1)

The designation fee shall be paid within six months of the date on which the European Patent Bulletin mentions the publication of the European search report.

Where the designation fee is not paid in due time or the designations of all the Contracting States are withdrawn, the European patent application shall be deemed to be withdrawn.

(3)

Without prejudice to Rule 37, paragraph 2, second sentence, the designation fee shall not be refunded.

[ Art. 3 78 80 88 121 149 R. 15 17 36 41 68 112 135 143 159 160 ]

Amended by decision of the Administrative Council CA/D 4/08 of 21.10.2008 (OJ EPO 2008, 513), which entered into force on 01.04.2009.

See opinion of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 4/98 (Annex I).

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/2016/e/r39.html

Date retrieved: 17 May 2021

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EPC Articles

X A.3 EPC Territorial effect

X A.78 EPC Requirements of a European patent application

X A.79 EPC Designation of Contracting States

X A.80 EPC Date of filing

X A.88 EPC Claiming priority

X A.121 EPC Further processing of the European patent application

X A.149 EPC Joint designation

EPC Implementing Rules

X Chapter I Filing of the European patent application

X R.15 EPC Limitation on withdrawals

X R.17 EPC Filing of a new European patent application by the entitled person

X R.36 EPC European divisional applications

X R.37 EPC Forwarding of European patent applications

X R.41 EPC Request for grant

X R.68 EPC Form of the publication of European patent applications and European search reports

X R.112 EPC Noting of loss of rights

X R.135 EPC Further processing

X R.143 EPC Entries in the European Patent Register

X R.159 EPC The European Patent Office as a designated or elected Office – Requirements for entry into the European phase

X R.160 EPC Consequences of non-fulfilment of certain requirements

EPO Guidelines - A Formalities Examination

X GL A III 11.2.1 Designation fee; time limits

X GL A III 11.2.2 Payment of designation fee

X GL A III 11.2.3 Consequences of non-payment of the designation fee

X GL A III 11.2.4 Withdrawal of designation

X GL A III 11.2.5 Euro-PCT applications entering the European phase

X GL A III 11.3.2 Consequences of non-payment of designation fees

X GL A III 11.3.4 Application deemed to be withdrawn

X GL A III 11.3.5 Request for grant form

X GL A III 11.3.7 Amount payable

X GL A III 11.3.9 Euro-PCT applications entering the European phase before 1 April 2009

X GL A III 12.2 Time limit for payment of extension and validation fees

X GL A VI 1.3 Content of the publication

X GL A X 5.2.2 Examination fee and designation fee

X GL A X 7.2 Indication of the purpose of the payment in the case of designation fees

EPO Guidelines - C Procedureal Aspects of Substantive Examination

X GL C II 4 Designation fee(s), extension and validation fees

EPO Guidelines - E General Procedural Matters

X GL E VIII 1.1 Determination of time limits

X GL E VIII 8.1 Withdrawal of application or designation

X GL E IX 2.1.1 Requirements for entry into the European phase

X GL E IX 2.1.4 Filing fee, designation fee, request for examination and search fee

X GL E IX 2.3.11 Designation fee

X GL E IX 2.8 Early processing

EPO Guide for Applicants, part II Int. - C The EPO as ISA and SISA

X GA C5.1.7 5.1.7.

X GA C5.2.2 5.2.2.

X GA C5.8.2 5.8.2.

Offical Journal of the EPO

X OJ EPO SE 4/2019, p32 - Annex A.2 to the ADA - Information from the EPO concerning the automatic debiting procedure

X OJ EPO SE 5/2017, p43 - Annex A.2 to the ADA - Information from the EPO concerning the automatic debiting procedure

X OJ EPO SE 5/2017, p22 - Annex A.1 to the ADA - Arrangements for the automatic debiting procedure (AAD) [ 1 ]

X OJ EPO SE 5/2017, p2 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 27 September 2017 concerning revision of the Arrangements for deposit accounts and their annexes

X OJ EPO 2013, 156 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 21 February 2013 concerning the request for early processing

X OJ EPO 2009, 603 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 2 November 2009 concerning the re-introduction of a grace period for the payment of extension fees

X OJ EPO 2009, 3-suppl - ARRANGEMENTS FOR DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS (ADA) AND THEIR ANNEXES

X OJ EPO 2008, 513 - Decision of the Administrative Council of 21 October 2008 amending the Implementing Regulations to the European Patent Convention (CA/D 4/08)

X OJ EPO 2008, 271 - Decisions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal

Case Law Book: II Conditions to be met by an Application

X CLR II F 4.2.1 Deemed designation of all states designated in earlier application at the date of filing of divisional

Case Law Book: IV Divisional Applications

X CLR IV A 7.1 Legal provisions

X CLR IV A 7.2.1 Deemed withdrawal

Case Law of the Enlarged Board

X G 0004/98 (Designation fees) of 27.11.2000

General Case Law

X J 0022/10 (Extension Agreements) of 12.12.2011

X J 0009/11 (Extension Agreements) of 30.3.2012