CLR III D 1.4.3 Fiction of fee payment in due time pursuant to Article 7(3) and (4) RFees

Reference is made to chapter III.U.3.1.

CLR III D 1.4.2 Period of grace for payment of fees under Rule 85a EPC 1973

CLR III D 1.4.1 Additional period for payment of renewal fees under Rule 51(2) EPC

The substance of Art. 86(2) EPC 1973 (late payment of renewal fee and payment of additional fee) is now contained in R. 51(2) EPC.

CLR III D 1.4 Statutory periods of grace, additional period for payment of renewal fees and the fiction of observance of a time limit for fee payments

1.4.1 Additional period for payment of renewal fees under Rule 51(2) EPC

1.4.2 Period of grace for payment of fees under Rule 85a EPC 1973

1.4.3 Fiction of fee payment in due time pursuant to Article 7(3) and (4) RFees

CLR III D 1.3.3 Dislocation of a mail service outside the contracting states (Rule 134(5) EPC)

CLR III D 1.3.2 General dislocation or interruption in delivery or transmission of mail in a Contracting State (R. 134(2) EPC)

CLR III D 1.3.1 Public holidays (Rule 134(1) EPC)

According to R. 134(1) EPC, if a period expires on a day on which one of the filing offices of the EPO is not open for receipt of documents or on which mail is not delivered there, the period shall extend to the first day thereafter on which all the filing offices are open for receipt of documents and on which mail is delivered. This also applies to periods concerning payments (J 1/81).

CLR III D 1.3 Extension of time limits ipso jure on account of public holidays or dislocation in delivery of mail (Rule 134 EPC)

1.3.1 Public holidays (Rule 134(1) EPC)

1.3.2 General dislocation or interruption in delivery or transmission of mail in a Contracting State (R. 134(2) EPC)

1.3.3 Dislocation of a mail service outside the contracting states (Rule 134(5) EPC)

CLR III D 1.2.2 Applicability of Rule 132 EPC to the Rules relating to Fees

CLR III D 1.2.1 Relevant criteria when time limits are extended upon request (R. 132(2), second sentence, EPC)