What do you mean by reducing fees?

Legal analysis: declaration and request for fee reduction are two different procedures. Fee reduction filing means that after filing in the trading system, all patents under the applicant's name can ask the official for fee reduction. Request for fee reduction means that the application for a specific patent submits a fee reduction request to the official, informing the official that the applicant has proposed a fee reduction, hoping to reduce the payment fee.

Legal basis: Article 3 of the Measures for the Reduction and Exemption of Patent Fees. If the patent applicant or patentee meets one of the following conditions, he may request China National Intellectual Property Administration to reduce or exempt the above fees:

(1) Individuals whose average monthly income in the previous year was less than 3,500 yuan (42,000 yuan per year);

(2) Enterprises with taxable income of less than 300,000 yuan in the previous year;

(3) Institutions, social organizations and non-profit scientific research institutions. Where two or more individuals or units are the same patent applicant or patentee, they shall abide by the provisions of the preceding paragraph respectively.