How to determine the patent application fee?

1. The product patent application fee of less than 4/4 is usually paid in the process of reading the patent application step by step: 1. Application fee: invention: application fee 950 yuan (including printing fee 50 yuan) utility model: application fee 500 yuan Design: application fee 500 yuan 2. Examination fee This fee is only paid when applying for invention patent, but not when applying for utility model and design. The examination fee for invention application is 2500 yuan. 3. Patent Registration Fee Applicants need to pay patent registration fee and announcement printing fee after receiving the patent authorization notice and registration notice. Invention: 250 yuan+India tax 5 yuan utility model: 200 yuan+India tax 5 yuan design: 200 yuan+India tax 5 yuan 2/34. The annual fee is within the validity period of the patent. If you want to maintain your power, you need to pay an annual fee to China National Intellectual Property Administration. The specific expenses are as follows: invention: 1 year-3rd year 900 yuan/4th year-6th year 1200 yuan/7th year-9th year 2000 yuan/year 10/24000 yuan/year1. The annual fee of 8,000 yuan/year (within 6 months) is delayed from 16 to 20 years, and a monthly late fee is added. Utility model: 1 to 3 years, 600 yuan/year, 4 to 5 years, 900 yuan/year, 6 to 8 years, 1200 yuan/year, 9 to 65438+. The design patent No.65438 is subject to a monthly fine of +0 years-3 years 600 yuan/4 years-5 years 900 yuan/6 years-8 years 1200 yuan/9 years-No.65438 +00 yuan/year fine (within 6 months). The monthly fine is 65438. In the future, the annual fee will be based on the date of application, only depending on the month and day. (For example, if the application date is: 20 10 1, just look at 1. ) One month before and after this date every year is the time to pay the annual fee for the next year. 2. Where the applicant entrusts a patent agency to apply for a patent, it shall pay the agency fee to the patent agency in addition to the above fees. The amount of agency fees varies according to the type of patent application and the workload of the agency. 3. The above fees are usually paid in the patent application, and other fees are subject to the payment notice sent by China National Intellectual Property Administration to the applicant. Second, what should enterprises pay attention to when applying for product patents? 1/4 1. Patent application time Because patents are on a first-come-first-served basis, generally speaking, the patent application time should be sooner rather than later. The sooner you get the patent right (even the application number), the faster you will win business opportunities. Therefore, patent application should start at the early stage of product development, and the best time to submit application documents is before the trial production is completed and put on the market. If the product needs to be further improved after it is put on the market, it usually refers to the second and third generation series products. Enterprises can add new patents and put forward new claims on the basis of the original application. At this time, enterprises still enjoy the advantage of applying first and accepting first. From the perspective of avoiding infringement, enterprises should also apply for patents in time. If the new product has great economic benefits and is easy to be copied, if the enterprise just puts the product on the market first and then applies for a patent in order to seize the market opportunity, it will be easily infringed. And novelty is a necessary condition for obtaining a patent. If you apply for a patent after the product is put on the market, the application will be rejected after being examined by China National Intellectual Property Administration because of the loss of novelty; Even if the patent is granted through examination, any other unit or individual can apply for invalidation of the patent at any time, resulting in ineffective protection of the patent. 2/4 2. The types of patents applied for are divided into invention patents, utility model patents and design patents. In the process of patent application, invention patents need substantive examination, and the examination and approval time will generally be extended to 2 to 3 years, while utility model patents do not need substantive examination, and the examination and approval time will be reduced to 8~ 10 months. After the patent is granted, the right protection period of the invention patent is 20 years, while the utility model patent is 10 years. Therefore, in the actual operation of patents, enterprises can determine the application type according to the specific properties of products. If the technical content of the product is not high, it is eager to occupy the market, and it is expected that it will only exist in the market in the short to medium term (easy to be eliminated or updated), then the utility model is used as the application type. Otherwise, high-tech products, especially those with basic patents, are suitable for application for invention patents if they want to occupy the market for a long time. 3/4 3, patent retrieval to avoid infringement Before applying for a patent, enterprises need to retrieve relevant patent documents, and through careful analysis and comparison of related patents, highlight the novelty of the patent in the application, so that the patent authorities can have a clear aim and avoid the trouble of infringement. Because once the patentee is brought to court, the enterprise will suffer huge losses. 4/4 4. The enterprise that pays the patent annual fee starts to pay the annual fee in the year when the patent right is granted, and the subsequent annual fee shall be paid in advance according to the regulations of China National Intellectual Property Administration before the expiration of the previous year, that is, within one month before the expiration of the previous year, or within six months from the date when the annual fee should be paid according to the notice of China National Intellectual Property Administration, otherwise the patent right will be terminated. Note: After the patent is granted, the protection period of the invention patent is 20 years, while the utility model patent is 10 years.