We have received the attached Communication from the European Patent Office. The non-extendable deadline for responding is 1 January 2021. The Communication invites us to file voluntary amendments and to pay claims fees for the sixteenth and subsequent claims. As this application has only 8 claims, no excess claims fees are due.There is no requirement to file a response to the communication. If you are happy with the current claims, then we can just ignore the communication and wait for examination to start in due course.If you do wish to make any voluntary amendments, then please let us know. If we don’t hear from you, we’ll assume that no further amendments are needed at this stage, and we’ll just let the deadline pass with no action.