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* Based on national renewal fees as at 1 August 2023. Overall costs of a Unitary Patent. A comparison of the overall costs of a Unitary Patent with those of a conventional European patent should consider not only the fees but also the costs associated with the validation and maintenance of a conventional European patent.

Schedule of Fees. The interactive schedule of fees can be accessed without a smart card. Links to it are provided in various places on the EPO website. In the Online services main menu, click Interactive schedule of fees. On the Schedule of Fees page, you can view and download the complete schedule of fees and search for individual fees. The ...

Fees due: The fee is increasing each year. Renewal fee for the 3rd year: currently EUR 530 Renewal fee for the 4th year: currently EUR 660 Renewal fee for the 5th year: currently EUR 925 (You have to pay the renewal fees to the EPO until the date of grant. We will discuss renewal fees occurring after grant below.) Important deadlines:

The fees due at the European Patent Office (EPO) in relation to a European patent application are laid out in the Rules relating to Fees of 20 October 1977, ... Whereas for a pending European patent application an applicant must pay a single maintenance fee at the EPO, it may be much more costly to pay several maintenance fees to the several ...

Prior to grant, annual maintenance fees are payable to the EPO to keep pending European patent applications alive. Use this service to pay an EPO pre-grant maintenance fee. During the simple checkout process, you will need to enter: The renewal year (this determines the price, and will be cross-checked before processing); The application number (for…

These fees will be rejected by the EPO in order to avoid extra work caused by double payments or refunds. The following fees will be rejected: – Renewal fees and fee for registering of transfers for EP applications in status DEAD (closed) – Renewal fees for EP applications that have been granted and published (B1 document)

The EPO charges annual renewal fees during the life of the application (hence they are technically called “application maintenance fees”). The first fee is due two years from the PCT filing date. Normally, the “payment window” for a renewal fee only opens three months before the due date for a renewal.

With Central Fee Payment, you can manage your deposit account and your automatic debit orders, and pay by debit order from your deposit account, by credit card or by bank transfer. Getting started Open Central Fee Payment

Renewal fee payments made before the permissible prepayment periods are not valid. If a debit order for a renewal fee is received via Central Fee Payment before the earliest valid payment dates under Rule 51(1), it will be rejected at source by the validation functionality (see A‑X, 4.2.3).If a payment is made too early either by filing a valid debit order via OLF and Online Filing 2.0 or by ...

In the US, there are only three maintenance fees payable: 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years after the date of grant. Other countries, where no maintenance fees are payable during prosecution are for example China, Japan, the United Kingdom and Mexico. In these countries, you only have to start paying the renewal fees after grant.

If you fail to pay the renewal fee before the due date, a grace period of 6 months is given wherein the renewal fees can still be settled. When entering the grace period you will incur a surcharge fee to be settled along with the renewal fee. If you wish to maintain the patent, both the renewal fee and the surcharge fee will have to be settled.

The EPO’s renewal fee for the 3rd year is currently EUR 490 and will increase annually from then on up to EUR 1 640 from the 10th year onwards. However, additional fees are charged by the EPO for the application, search and grant, the latter for example the grant fee and the publication fee. These fees, which are unavoidable when filing a ...

The European Patent Office (EPO) is introducing a new schedule of official fees, which will apply to payments made from Monday 1 April 2024. The new fees represent an increase of, on average, 4%. There are, however, some notable exceptions, with the third, fourth and fifth year renewal fees increasing by 30%, 28% and 8% respectively. Subsequent renewals have not changed significantly.

Renewal fees are also payable for the third year and each subsequent year after the date of filing until a European patent is granted or until the proceedings have otherwise been closed. The filing and search fees due at the beginning of the procedure currently amount to at least EUR 1 655 (or EUR 1 805 if the application is filed on paper).

The European Patent Office (EPO) collects maintenance fees for a pending patent application. Once the patent is granted, the obligation to pay annuities must be fulfilled before the offices of the ...

Increase of official fees at the European Patent Office from 1 April 2022. ... (such as maintenance fees which may be paid up to 3 months in advance) or even the filing of new applications prior to that date to obtain some savings. The new official fees are available at EPO ...

The European Patent Office (EPO) collects maintenance fees for a pending patent application. Once the patent is granted, the obligation to pay annuities must be fulfilled before the offices of the countries in which the EP has been validated. This means that the maintenance fees will change once an EP application has matured into a grant that ...

The WIPO and the EPO websites provide a lot of information about the filing fees, but no information about the maintenance fees. Search engines point to sites set up by lawyers or agencies that spam your search, but offer no information. I just know that the first maintenance fee kicks in three years from the filing date.

Introduced on 11 September 2021, a new central service called Central Fee Payment provides users with a unique gateway for paying fees and claiming refunds across the entire patent grant procedure and via all permitted payment methods. 4.3.018 The following advice and recommendations on paying fees to the EPO should be noted: