Is it reasonable for patent companies to charge like this?

I don't know how your contract was signed, but there are roughly two charging modes in the patent application agency industry:

(1), it is agreed that the agency fee will be paid in advance, and other fees will be paid by the customer: of course, there will be an application fee after the application, and many agencies will pay for the customer, because it is not many, but the agency will definitely not bear the actual audit fee of the invention unless it is specially agreed; The authorization fee is not included in the agency, because there are many fees to be paid after authorization, including registration fee, stamp duty, annual fee, etc., which are very high, close to or exceeding 65,438+0,000, and the preliminary agreement is clearly the agency fee, so many patent agencies will not bear it;

(2) All expenses are included, and there is no dispute from application to authorization and handling.

Therefore, it still depends on what the contract you signed, not what you said verbally. Maybe you remember wrong, or maybe people made empty promises, which are not recorded in the contract, but all the contents are subject to the contract, and you can't talk empty words.

At the same time, I also want to remind you that every local patent agency industry has established charging regulations, which can be used as a reference to determine what fees you pay.