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Owing to
technical maintenance work, all EPO online filing services will be unavailable
on Saturday, 24 October between 08.00 and 14.00 hrs CET. This affects both
European and international applications.
The services
that will be unavailable are:
- Online Filing
- New online filing (CMS)
- Web-Form Filing
- ePCT
The ePCT service
will be unavailable only for filing with the EPO as receiving Office.
It has no longer
been possible to file international applications with the EPO using PCT-SAFE
since 1 July 2020 (see OJ EPO 2020, A59).
If you wish to
file while our online filing services are unavailable, you can do so by post,
fax or hand.
We apologise for
any inconvenience.