Creating an EP Validation Forecast

Once your European patent is allowed, you can easily forecast the costs of validating it in EP member states you have selected. These forecasts can be Saved, Emailed, and/or Exported for later use or distribution to team members or clients to review.

Let’s create your EP Validation forecast for validation costs in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France.

From your Homepage at the top under Create New Forecast, click the ” Patent ” button. This will take you directly to the Patent Forecast Request screen.

Select your Starting Point of “European Patent Organisation (EPO)” from the Patent Forecast Request screen. You can use type-ahead to narrow the list, and either use the arrow keys to select your selection and hit the enter key, or just type in EPO to select it. Repeat the same for other countries that you would need to add.
Note: The Estimate Validation/Unitary Costs toggle button must be turned on for all necessary fees required for an EP Validation Forecast to be included.
The expenses we must pay to complete the patent granting process are the Allowance and Grant Costs, so these should be turned on under the settings. The Maintenance Cost toggle can be enabled to display the costs associated with maintaining the patent over time.

Under the Application Details tab, enter your application details. For this example, we will enter 10 for Total Claims, 2 for Independent Claims, and 30 for pages.
Click Create Forecast to proceed.

Forecast Results: You are now at your forecast results screen. You may click on the expansion arrows on each phase to view more details.

Allowance and Grants Result – This section of the fees includes the granting costs, such as translation costs, designation fees, and the UPC Opt-out fee.

Validated Countries Results – Each country that is added to your forecast will have the EP Validation Phase and the Maintenance Phase.

EP Validation – This section shows any costs associated with the validation or extension in a country. This typically includes an associate fee, and often includes translation costs or PTO fees.