Utility model patent application process and fees
1. Consultation:
2. Write a technical briefing:
3. Chinese patent search: pay the search fee first. Purpose: 1. Preliminarily confirm the novelty of the application content in Chinese patents; 2. Prevent infringement of other people’s patent rights in China. Operation: Search Chinese patents (that is, Chinese patents and patents applied by foreigners to China and published or announced). Additional search fees and translation fees will be charged for searching foreign language patents. After conducting a Chinese patent search, if our firm agrees to accept the entrustment, we can guarantee that the application will be granted patent rights, otherwise all agency fees will be refunded.
4. Agency: Ordinary agency: basic agency fee is charged. Expedited agency: 40% of the basic agency fee is charged. Based on the original materials provided by the applicant, the agent will draft application documents that comply with the provisions of the Patent Law, Implementing Rules of the Patent Law, and Examination Guidelines.
5. Acceptance: After receiving the application documents mailed or submitted, the National Patent Office will send back the "Notice of Acceptance", and the applicant will get the "Notice of Acceptance" The application fee must be paid to the China Patent Office on time or within two months from the date of application (the full fee is 500 yuan). If it is delayed, the fee will be paid according to the reduction ratio. At the same time, we will charge a handling fee. The patent application will be deemed withdrawn if the fee is paid after the due date.
6. Registration procedures: The National Patent Office will issue an about one year from the date of application. At this time, the applicant should submit the The patent registration fee and the annual fee for the year of authorization are paid by the Patent Office. The payment period is within two months from the date of receipt of the authorization notice from the Patent Office. You will receive a patent certificate issued by the National Patent Office about three months after the payment. . Failure to pay the patent fee after the due date shall be deemed as giving up the patent right.
7. Restoration of rights: If the above rights are lost and need to be restored, in addition to going through the rights restoration procedures and paying back the owed fees, you must also submit a request to the National Patent Office The bureau pays the rights restoration request fee: 1,000 yuan.
8. Reexamination: If you are dissatisfied with the decision of the Patent Office to reject a patent application or not to grant a patent right, you may also request a reexamination to the Reexamination Committee of the State Intellectual Property Office.
9. Fee reduction: the application fee paid to the National Patent Office and the annual fee for the first three years after authorization are reduced by 85% for one applicant and for more than two ( Applicants (including two incomes) or applicants from one unit will be mitigated by 70%, and those applied by two entities will not be mitigated.
10. Other fees: Our firm will pay the patent fee on your behalf. Contact Tencent No. 1264553342 and a handling fee of 50 yuan (RMB) will be charged for each item. The applicant himself We don't charge any fees. Our firm is not responsible for any loss of rights caused by improper payment of fees by the applicant.
11. Patent protection period: 10 years for a utility model patent, calculated from the date of application. After authorization, an annual fee must be paid to the National Patent Office every year. The time is currently within one month of each year's application. See the instructions on the right side of the patent certificate for details.
Fees
Domestic part:
(1) Application fee
1. Invention patent 900 printing fee 50
2. Practical New patent 500
3. Design patent 500
(2) Invention patent application maintenance fee per year 300
(3) Invention patent application examination fee 2,500
(4) Review fee
1. Invention patent 1000
2. Utility model patent 300
3. Design patent 300
(5) Handling fee for change of description items
1. Changes in inventors, applicants and patentees 200
2. Patent agency and change of agent’s entrustment relationship 50
(6) Priority claim fee 80 per item
(7) Rights restoration request fee 1,000
(8) Revocation request fee
1. Invention patent rights 30
2. Utility model patents 20
3. Design patent rights 20
(9) Invalidation request fee
1 , Invention patent right 3000
2. Utility model patent right 1500
3. Design patent right 1500
(10) Compulsory license request fee
1. Invention patent 300
2. Utility model patent 200(11) Compulsory license use ruling request fee 300
(12) Patent registration, printing, printing costs
1. Invention patent 255
2. Utility model patent 205
3. Design patent 205
">(13) Surcharge
1. The first extension request fee is 300 per month, and the second extension request fee is 2,000 per month
2. The claim surcharge will be increased by RMB 150 per item from the 11th item3. The description surcharge will be increased from the 31st item From pageThe additional fee for each page (including the instructions and drawings) is 50, and the additional fee for each page (including the instructions and drawings) from page 301 is 100
(14) Annual Fee
p>1. Invention patent: 900 for 1-3 years; 1200 for 4-6 years; 2000 for 7-9 years; 4000 for 10-12 years; 13-- 6000 in 15 years; 8000 in 16-20 years
2. Utility model patent: 600 in 1-3 years; 900 in 4-5 years; 6-8 1200 per year; 2000 for 9-10 years
3. Design patent: 600 for 1-3 years; 900 for 4-5 years; 900 for 6-8 years 1200; 9--10 years 2000
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