What is the patent application fee in the United States?

The expenses involved in applying for an American invention patent can be roughly divided into four parts: official expenses, foreign agency fees, China agency fees and tax treatment fees, among which the official expenses charged by the US Patent and Trademark Office and the agency fees charged by foreign lawyers account for more than 70% of the total expenses. Next, what is the patent application fee in the United States?

The patent application fee in the United States consists of official fee and agency service fee. Let's talk about official fees first. If we don't consider all kinds of complicated situations, we only consider the most basic official fee from submission to authorization. The official fee for invention patent is about 2700 US dollars, the official fee for appearance application is about 1600 US dollars, and the official fee for plant application is about 2000 US dollars. Other expenses that may occur in the general application process, such as supplementing or modifying relevant documents, extending the reply period of review opinions during the review stage, and submitting a request for continued review (RCE). For detailed information about these fees, please refer to the official website of USPTO.

Let me talk about the service fee in the US patent application fee. There are differences among institutions. Generally, the fees charged by patent agents in the United States range from $200 to $700 per hour, or they are charged by package. Simply put, the service fee for submitting an application in the United States can be divided into three parts, one is the cost of writing, the other is the cost of reviewing and replying, and the third is the cost of submitting related process services. The service fee for ghostwriting is about 5000- 15000 USD, and it is about 1000-3000 USD to reply to a review opinion. The specific service fee still depends on the difficulty of patent and the customer's standard. From submission to authorization, the process service fee is about USD 65,438+0,500-2,500 (including information disclosure fee).

There is a mandatory information disclosure obligation in the US patent application, that is, the applicant/agent should disclose all known documents related to the patent application to the USPTO. This obligation runs through the application and ends when the patent is granted or abandoned. The number of IDs disclosed in each application is related to the number of applications in the same series. The service fee leaked by IDS is usually 400-1, 500.

Generally speaking, the cost of an ordinary American patent application is as high as 1 10,000 to more than 20,000 US dollars, equivalent to RMB 1 10,000+RMB. Compared with the domestic average cost of 12000-25000 yuan per tablet, this cost is quite high. And until the authorization, the service fee accounts for a large proportion of the total expenses that the applicant needs to spend. However, it is worthwhile to apply successfully and get reasonable protection. Assuming that excessive pursuit of low-cost investment will lead to serious consequences such as low quality of patent application or even rejection of patent, we should pay attention to the reasonable balance between quality and cost.

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