What's the price? Is it better to apply for an American patent or a Japanese patent?

There is nothing to say. Both American patents and Japanese patents have high gold content, so you can choose to apply or apply together according to your own needs.

In terms of fees, different agencies have different application fees. Let's take the ink platform as an example to illustrate:

U.S.P.

Fee for the application stage of American invention patent: ￥ 14300.

Fee for application stage of American design patent: ￥ 10800.

Japanese patent

Japanese invention patent application stage fee: ￥ 24,000

Japanese utility model patent application stage fee: ￥ 15800.

Japanese design patent application stage fee: ￥ 16800.

Note: The above fees do not include translation fees, defense fees and authorization fees.