Patent application fee 1. When applying for patent agency, the applicant needs to pay agency fees and handling fees.
2. The amount of agency fee shall be determined by the applicant through consultation with the agency according to the difficulty and workload of the technical field to which the application belongs.
3. Official expenses are paid to China National Intellectual Property Administration. It usually includes: the first official fee includes: the application fee for invention patent, 950 yuan (including printing fee, 50 yuan); Application fee for utility model patent 500 yuan; 500 yuan, design patent application fee; The examination fee for invention application is 2500 yuan. In addition, the registration fee for invention patent authorization is 255 yuan, and the registration fee for utility model or design patent authorization is 205 yuan.
In order to obtain and keep the patent, the applicant also needs to pay the annual patent fee and other fees to the patent office within a few years after the application.
5. If the patent applicant or patentee meets one of the following conditions, he may request China National Intellectual Property Administration to reduce or exempt some patent fees: a. Individuals whose average monthly income in the previous year was less than 3,500 yuan (42,000 yuan per year); B enterprises with taxable income of less than 300,000 yuan in the previous year; C 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.
The patent applicant or patentee may request to reduce the following patent fees: application fee (excluding publication and printing fee and application surcharge), substantive examination fee for an application for a patent for invention, annual fee and reexamination fee for six years from the date of being granted the patent right. If the patent applicant or patentee is a single individual or unit, the above expenses will be reduced by 85%. If two or more individuals or units are * * * the same patent applicant or * * * patentee, 70% of the above fees will be reduced or exempted.
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