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OJ EPO 2019, A8 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 17 December 2018 concerning forms and publications available from the EPO

Updated lists of forms available free of charge from the EPO and of selected EPO publications are given below.

The forms can be downloaded from the website at www.epo.org/forms.

OJ EPO 2019, A9 - List of professional representatives before the European Patent Office [ 1 ]

Contracting state

AL	Albania
	Amendments

OJ EPO 2019, A10 - Guidance for the payment of fees, expenses and prices

The fees guidance currently applicable is set out in OJ EPO 2018, A32.

The current schedule of fees and expenses of the EPO is set out in supplementary publication 2, OJ EPO 2018.

Fee information is also published on the EPO website: www.epo.org/fees.

OJ EPO 2019, A11 - Warning – beware of approaches and requests for payment from firms purporting to register European patents

The European Patent Office (EPO) is aware that European patent applicants and proprietors sometimes receive invoices from firms and individuals inviting them to pay for the publication and/or registration of their applications and patents.

OJ EPO 2019, A12 - TR Turkey

New fee rates

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office has informed us that some patent fees have been changed.^[ 1 ]

Applicants for and proprietors of European patents with effect in Turkey are advised that from 1 January 2019 the rates below apply. The figures in brackets are the reduced amounts for users paying fees and filing documents online.

OJ EPO 2019, A13 - Composition of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (as at February 2019)

	Chairman	Deputy Chairman
	Mr Josef Kratochvíl, President, Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic	N.N.

OJ EPO 2019, A14 - Decision of the President of the European Patent Office dated 20 February 2019 revising the Officeꞌs fees and expenses

Article 1

OJ EPO 2019, A15 - N otice from the European Patent Office dated 20 February 2019 concerning the revision of the administrative fees of the European Patent Office and various related decisions of the President

OJ EPO 2019, A16 - Decision of the President of the European Patent Office dated 20 February 2019 on the inspection of files

The President of the European Patent Office, having regard to Article 128(4) and Rule 145(2) EPC and to Rule 94.3 PCT, has decided as follows:

OJ EPO 2019, A17 - Decision of the President of the European Patent Office dated 20 February 2019 concerning online file inspection of documents contained in the file held by the EPO as receiving Office, International Searching Authority or [..]

Full title: OJ EPO 2019, A17 - Decision of the President of the European Patent Office dated 20 February 2019 concerning online file inspection of documents contained in the file held by the EPO as receiving Office, International Searching Authority or Authority specified for supplementary search