Patent application fee waiver refers to the policy of reducing patent application fee for individuals or individual enterprises and institutions with financial difficulties.
What is the process of patent fee reduction and exemption? According to the provisions of the Measures for the Reduction and Exemption of Patent Fees, the patent applicant or patentee may request the reduction or exemption of the following patent fees: application fee (excluding publication printing fee and application surcharge); Substantive examination fee for an application for a patent for invention; Annual fee (within six years from the year when the patent right is granted); Review fee
The patent applicant or patentee meets one of the following conditions, and the average monthly income in the previous year was less than 3,500 yuan (42,000 yuan per year); Enterprises with taxable income of less than 300,000 yuan in the previous year; Institutions, social organizations and non-profit scientific research institutions; If the patent applicant or patentee is a single individual or unit, the above expenses will be reduced by 85%; If two or more individuals or units are the same patent applicant or patentee, the above expenses shall be reduced by 70%.
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