Legal basis: Announcement of China National Intellectual Property Administration on Adjusting the Conditions of Patent Fee Reduction and Exemption and the Standard of Trademark Registration Fee.
Article 3 The requirements for patent applicants and patentees who can apply for patent fee reduction and exemption shall be adjusted from an average monthly income of less than 3,500 yuan (42,000 yuan a year) to an average monthly income of less than 5,000 yuan (60,000 yuan a year); Enterprises with taxable income of less than 300,000 yuan in the previous year were adjusted to enterprises with taxable income of less than 6,543,800 yuan in the previous year.
Article 4 The charging standard for accepting trademark renewal registration fee is reduced from 1 1,000 yuan to 500 yuan, and the charging standard for change fee is reduced from 250 yuan to 1, 50 yuan. The trademark business of submitting applications and accepting electronic documents online is free of change fees. Other expenses, including trademark registration fee, trademark registration certificate replacement fee, trademark transfer fee, trademark renewal registration fee, trademark renewal registration extension fee, trademark examination fee, trademark certification fee, trademark collective registration fee, trademark registration fee, trademark objection fee, trademark cancellation fee, trademark licensing contract filing fee, etc., shall be implemented according to 90% of the current standards.