For the PCT application whose international search report is issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office, the Japanese Patent Office, the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the China National Intellectual Property Administration, the Russian Intellectual Property and Patent Trademark Office or the Australian Patent Office, compared with the European patent application submitted directly to the European Bureau (including through the Paris Convention), the search fee when entering Europe will be reduced by 65,438+090 euros.
In addition, the maintenance fee will be paid in the third year, and the maintenance fee in the third year is 380 euros. If the applicant wants the application documents to be temporarily protected in some member countries after being published in Europe, he needs to translate the claim into the official language of that country, and the translation fee is calculated according to the actual number of words. The payment period of European patent application maintenance fee starts from the "application date" (if it is an international application, it is the international application date), not the priority date or the date when the PCT application enters Europe. From the third year onwards, the maintenance fee shall be paid to the European Patent Office every year until the maintenance fee/annual fee of the year in which the European patent authorization announcement is made is paid, and these maintenance fees shall be paid only to the European Patent Office. After that, the annual fee shall be paid to the member States where the European patent takes effect.
2. Agency fees for foreign lawyers to respond to the review opinions. Generally, it needs to be calculated according to the difficulty of auditing opinions, the working hours spent by agents and the time charging standards of different agents (evaluated according to their professional level, professional experience and technical background).
3. The cost of the authorization stage. Includes translation fees for translating the claim into the other two official languages. If it is submitted in English, the translation fee in German and French is required, which is generally calculated according to the number of words in the case claim; Authorization fee and printing fee (within 35 pages of the manual) ***7 15 Euro; The translation fee for each effective language should be determined according to the designated effective country and the language to be translated; Some countries need to pay entry-into-force fees; Foreign lawyers' agency fees and domestic agency fees for completing the above four tasks.
4. Annual fee for effective countries: Each effective country is different, depending on the number of effective countries.