You need to pay a certain fee to apply for a patent, and you need to pay an annual fee to protect the patent for a long time. Of course, there are preferential policies for fee reduction. I. Conditions for Reduction and Exemption of Patent Application Fee The patent applicant or patentee meets one of the following conditions: 1, an individual with an average monthly income of less than 3,500 yuan (42,000 yuan per person per year) in the previous year; 2. Enterprises with taxable income of less than 300,000 yuan in the previous year; 3, institutions, social organizations, 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. Patent fee reduction ratio: 1, application fee (excluding publication printing fee and application surcharge); 2. Substantive examination fee for an application for a patent for invention; 3. Annual fee (within ten years from the year when the patent right is granted); 4. Review fee. If it is an applicant, it can be reduced by 85%; If there are two or more applicants, the fee can be reduced by 70%, and each applicant must meet the conditions for fee reduction and exemption. Two. Patent mitigation application certification materials 1. Personal subject: proof of income in the previous year and a copy of ID card are required. On-the-job: annual income certificate issued by the unit. Unemployed person: the certificate issued by the county-level civil affairs department or the township people's government (street office) where the household registration is located or where the habitual residence is located. 2. Enterprise entity: if it has been established for one year, a copy of the annual tax return of enterprise income tax in the previous year. During the settlement period, submit a copy of the annual enterprise income tax return of the previous year; Copy of business license, organization code certificate or other documents (if the business license (copy) printed with organization code or unified social credit code is submitted, the copy of organization code certificate may not be submitted). If it has been established for less than one year, a copy of the business license of the enterprise can be provided. 3. Institutions, social organizations and non-profit scientific research institutions: only copies of legal person certification materials are required. Three. Application procedure for patent fee reduction 1. The Patent Affairs Service System /index.jsp handles the application for fee reduction (the applicant or patentee must select the natural year of the pre-application when applying for fee reduction, and the eligibility for fee reduction in each natural year is valid until 65438+February 3 1 of that year, from the fourth quarter of each year (65438+1October 600) 2. After submitting the application online, the system will prompt you to mail the relevant materials to the designated audit institution (local patent agency) within the prescribed time limit; 3. Mail or submit relevant materials to the designated patent agency within the prescribed time limit (copies of relevant materials need to be stamped with the official seal) for review, and log in to the service system for about a week to inquire about the examination and approval results. 4. If the above-mentioned filing information that has not been completed within the prescribed time limit or audited by the auditing agency is inconsistent with the actual situation, its qualification for fee reduction filing is invalid.
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Article 6 of the Measures for the Reduction and Exemption of Patent Fees