{"id":853,"date":"2024-02-20T12:20:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T11:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/?p=853"},"modified":"2024-03-18T12:21:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T11:21:40","slug":"european-patent-application-fee-reduction-for-small-entities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/european-patent-application-fee-reduction-for-small-entities\/","title":{"rendered":"EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION-FEE REDUCTION FOR SMALL ENTITIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the changes to the European Patent Office&#8217;s (EPO&#8217;s) fee regime, effective April 1, 2024, new measures will apply in particular to small, innovative entities in need of financial support in order to complete their European patent application (micro-businesses, individuals, non-profit organizations, etc.). The EPO specifies that &#8220;<em>these micro-entities will benefit from a 30% reduction in all the main fees in the patent grant procedure, provided that they have filed less than five applications in the last five years<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To know more\u00a0:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epo.org\/en\/news-events\/news\/new-simplified-fee-system-supports-small-applicants-30-discounts\">https:\/\/www.epo.org\/en\/news-events\/news\/new-simplified-fee-system-supports-small-applicants-30-discounts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the changes to the European Patent Office&#8217;s (EPO&#8217;s) fee regime, effective April 1, 2024, new measures will apply in particular to small, innovative entities in need of financial support in order to complete their European patent application (micro-businesses, individuals, non-profit organizations, etc.). The EPO specifies that &#8220;these micro-entities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}