To apply for a patent, you need to pay the application fee to China National Intellectual Property Administration. For invention patents, there are substantive examination fees, and for authorization, there are certificate fees. If you entrust an intermediary agency to apply for a patent, you have to pay an agency fee. Patent applicants who have difficulties may apply to China National Intellectual Property Administration for fee reduction.
(1) Within 6 months after the applicant obtains the announcement notice and enters the substantive examination stage (subject to the date when the actual examination notice is issued), each piece will be subsidized by RMB 2,000. However, if the fee approved by China National Intellectual Property Administration Patent Office is slowed down and lower than the subsidy amount, the patent application fee and examination fee will be subsidized according to the actual expenditure;
(2) Within 6 months after obtaining the patent certificate (subject to the date of authorization announcement), a subsidy of 2,000 yuan will be given for each piece, and an additional subsidy of 65,438 yuan+0,000 yuan will be given for each piece if a Shenzhen patent agency or a foreign patent agency is entrusted to represent a branch with a certain scale (the tax paid last year was more than 200,000 yuan); The applicant can apply for funding within 6 months after obtaining the patent certificate (subject to the date of authorization announcement), and the municipal intellectual property department will make a one-time payment according to the above funding standards.
(three) the first time to apply for a patent for invention, after obtaining the invention patent certificate, will increase the subsidy of 3000 yuan for the first time to apply for a patent for invention;
(4) After a patent agency and a branch of a foreign patent agency with a certain scale established in Shenzhen (with a tax payment of more than 200,000 yuan in the previous year) apply for an invention patent in Shenzhen and obtain an invention patent certificate, the agency will receive a subsidy of 1 000 yuan per piece, which will be accepted once every six months. Conditions and standards for applying for foreign invention patent grant If an application is made within one year after obtaining a foreign invention certificate, a one-time grant will be given according to the following standards of different countries and regions. Each patent is funded by at most two countries or regions, and the total annual funding for the same applicant (including enterprises, groups, wholly-owned subsidiaries or holding subsidiaries belonging to the same enterprise or group with the same applicant) does not exceed 20 million yuan.
Pct international application funding conditions and standards
(a) The PCT international funding application shall be filed within 6 months after receiving the notice of receiving the retrieval book (Form 202) (subject to the date of publication);
(2) An invention patent project that has submitted an international patent application in accordance with the PCT rules and meets the funding conditions upon examination, the unit applies for 6,543.8+0,000 yuan each, and the individual applies for 6,000 yuan each.