Following its previous announcement to repeal the 24-month limit on filing divisional applications, on December 13, 2013 the European Patent Office (EPO) announced an updated schedule of fees for filing European patent applications, on or after April 1, 2014. The attached table summarizes the total filing fees for applications filed electronically after that date. As indicated, an increasingly higher fee is applied to subsequent divisional applications filed after a 1st generation divisional application.
Application Type |
Filing Fee (Euro) |
European Patent application |
120 |
1st generation divisional application |
120 |
generation divisional application |
330 |
3rd generation divisional application |
540 |
4th generation divisional application |
750 |
5th and subsequent generation divisional application |
960 |
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