What is the annual fee for utility model patent?

The annual fee of utility model patent is divided into two standards: no reduction and exemption procedures and reduction and exemption procedures.

No fee waiver filing procedure or fee waiver filing failed:

No.65438 +0 year 3: 600 yuan/year;

Years 4-6: 900 yuan/year;

7th-8th year: 1200 yuan/year;

No.9-No.65438 +00: 2000/ year.

Fee reduction and filing procedures are qualified (85% reduction):

No.65438 +0 year 3: 90 yuan/year;

4-6 years: 135 yuan/year;

7th-8th year: 180 yuan/year;

9th-10/0,300/year.

Reduction of interest and expenses

If the patent applicant or patentee meets one of the following conditions, he may request China National Intellectual Property Administration to reduce or exempt some patent fees:

1, individuals whose average monthly income in the previous year was less than 3,500 yuan (42,000 yuan per year);

2. Enterprises with taxable income of less than 300,000 yuan in the previous year;

3, institutions, social organizations, non-profit scientific research institutions. Where two or more individuals or units are the same patent applicant or patentee, they shall abide by the provisions of the preceding paragraph respectively.

The patent applicant or patentee may request to reduce the following patent fees: application fee (excluding publication and printing fee and application surcharge), substantive examination fee for an application for a patent for invention, annual fee and reexamination fee for six years from the date of being granted the patent right.

For details of the reduction and payment of patent fees, please refer to the Measures for Reduction and Exemption of Patent Fees (Cai Shui [2016] No.78).

Determination of payment date

Where the patent fee is paid in person to the Patent Office or its agency, the payment date shall be the payment date. If payment is made by postal remittance, the postmark date of postal remittance shall be the date of payment. If payment is made by bank remittance, the actual remittance date of the bank shall be the payment date.