Patent fee reduction policy

Legal analysis: The patent registration fee, announcement printing fee and instruction manual change fee (change of entrustment relationship between patent agency and agent) in the patent fee (domestic part) are stopped, and the transmission fee in PCT (international phase part) is lowered from the preferential policy of 10 year from the year when the patent is granted, which continues to reduce the holding cost of invention patents.

Legal basis: patent fee reduction and exemption measures Article 2 A patent applicant or patentee may request reduction and exemption of the following patent fees: (1) Application fee (excluding publication and printing fee and application surcharge); (2) the substantive examination fee for an application for a patent for invention; (3) Annual fee (within six years from the year when the patent right is granted); (4) review fee.