EPO fee increases – 1 April 2023

The EPO have recently announced that the official fee schedule will be revised for payments made on or after 1 April 2023. The new amounts are shown in the table below with a comparison to the current amounts. There is an increase of about 5% on all fees.

The new amounts apply to payments made on or after 1 April 2023, not to fees due on or after that date. It is therefore possible to pay fees early to avoid the increase, if you can accommodate that change within your processes without incurring greater costs than will be saved.

The new fee schedule again includes reduced fees for applications filed in character-coded format, but since the EPO does not yet accept applications in that format a previous decision renders those fees inapplicable.