What's the procedure for refunding fees at the Patent Office?

First, you need materials:

Enterprise tax return

business license

Enterprises meet the conditions for patent fee reduction and payment.

A: Enterprises with a tax payable of less than 300,000 yuan.

Where can I check the tax payable of the enterprise? Simply ask the financial personnel of the enterprise to find out the tax return form of enterprise tax. The fifth item, that is, the tax payable is less than 300 thousand yuan, that is, the enterprise meets the conditions for reducing or exempting the payment of patent fees.

The company is required to provide a copy of its business license and a corporate tax return stamped with the official seal.

In addition, institutions, social organizations and non-profit scientific research institutions need to provide a copy of the certificate of the institution and affix the official seal to directly meet the conditions for the reduction and payment of patent fees.

Two, how to handle the patent fee reduction and filing procedures?

1. Log in to official website of the Intellectual Property Office, register the user name and enter the patent affairs service system.

2. The registration system enters the page of fee reduction filing system.

3. Fill in the relevant information according to the prompt and submit it.

4, paper materials by mail designated audit institutions (patent agencies)

5. Log in to the patent affairs service system every week to see if it passes the examination and approval, that is, if it fails to pass the examination and approval, it will submit a patent application. If it does not pass, it needs to be revised or re-filed according to the prompt to reduce the fee until it is approved.

Three. Matters needing attention

1. The relevant patent application forms of the office for patent fee reduction and exemption have been adjusted. Official website, Intellectual Property Office, explained in detail.

2. If the filing effect of fee reduction needs to be re-filed, filing procedures shall be handled every quarter (i.e. 10 to 1).

Fourth, summary.

Before the implementation of the new "Patent Fee Exemption Office", every time an enterprise applies for a patent, it needs to go through the formalities of exemption and exemption, which are complicated and the regulations are the same, which brings trouble to the enterprise.

The new patent fee waiver office directly reflects the decentralization policy for enterprise applicants, and the new patent fee waiver office has brought tangible results to enterprises. According to my experience, all enterprises are eligible for exemption, and the new patent fee exemption office is applicable to all enterprises.