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R.97 EPC Appeal against apportionment and fixing of costs

(1)

The apportionment of costs of opposition proceedings cannot be the sole subject of an appeal.

(2)

A decision fixing the amount of costs of opposition proceedings cannot be appealed unless the amount exceeds that of the fee for appeal.

[ Art. 104 R. 88 101 ]

See decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 3/03 (Annex I).

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/2016/e/r97.html

Date retrieved: 17 May 2021

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EPC Articles

X A.21 EPC Boards of Appeal

X A.104 EPC Costs

X A.106 EPC Decisions subject to appeal

EPC Implementing Rules

X Chapter I Appeals procedure

X R.88 EPC Costs

X R.101 EPC Rejection of the appeal as inadmissible

X R.111 EPC Form of decisions

EPO Guidelines - D Opposition and Limitation/Revocation Procedures

X GL D IX 2.2 Appeal against the fixing of costs by the opposition division

EPO Guidelines - E General Procedural Matters

X GL E X 5 Information as to means of redress

X GL E XII 3 Appeals against the apportionment of costs

X GL E XII 4 Appeals against the decision of the opposition division on the fixing of costs

Offical Journal of the EPO

X OJ EPO 2020, A26 - Opinion of the Enlarged Board of Appeal dated 18 July 2019G 1/18

Case Law Book: III Amendments

X CLR III R 3.3 Appeal against decision fixing amount of costs

X CLR III R 4.3 Appeal solely against the decision on apportionment of costs inadmissible

Case Law of the Enlarged Board

X G 0003/03 (Reimbursement of the appeal fee/HIGHLAND) of 28.1.2005

General Case Law

X T 0577/11 (Entitlement to priority) of 14.4.2016

X T 0161/17 (Dampfreformierung/ILW) of 16.6.2017