How much does it cost to apply for a design patent

The official fee in the patent application process is the fee set by the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) for the approval of the State in order to obtain a patent. This part of the fee is clearly announced on the website of the State Intellectual Property Office, and there is a wide range of items, because in the process of patent application may arise in a variety of different matters, the website has everything to show the public the breakdown of the official fee.

However, for a particular patent application, the vast majority of the fees in the website are not required, therefore, the author is only illustrating the fees that are incurred in a normal patent application, and it is normal that other additional fees may be incurred in a particular case.

Patents consist of three types: inventions, utility models and designs. Before a patent is filed until it is granted, the fee to be filed is RMB 3,450 for inventions and RMB 500 for utility models and designs. After the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) decides to grant the patent, the invention needs to be submitted for 255 yuan, and the utility model and design need to be submitted for 205 yuan.

Thus, the official fee before authorization is 3,705 yuan for inventions and 705 yuan for utility models and designs.

Expanded information:

Annual patent fees are not equal numbers, but rather, they become more expensive over time (if a patent remains in force in spite of increasingly expensive annual fees, it is generally assumed that the patent brings the patentee better market gains), the amounts are as follows:

The invention patent is $900 per year for the 1st to 3rd years, $1,200 per year for the 4th to 6th years, $2,000 per year for the 7th to 9th years, $4,000 per year for the 10th to 12th years, $6,000 per year for the 13th to 15th years, and $8,000 per year for the 16th to 20th years.

Utility models and designs are 600 yuan per year for years 1 to 3, 900 yuan per year for years 4 to 5, 1,200 yuan per year for years 6 to 8, and 2,000 yuan per year for years 9 to 10.

In this way, for example, if a patent is granted in the first year of application, the official fee to be paid for getting a patent certificate is 4,605 yuan for invention patents and 1,305 yuan for utility models and designs.

The official fees mentioned above can be saved in some ways under certain premises. The Patent Law provides that "the application fee, the substantive examination fee and the annual fee for three years from the year of granting the patent right may be subject to fee remission, 85% in the name of an individual application, 70% in the name of a unit, 70% in the name of two or more individuals, and no remission in the name of two or more units. In addition, a fee waiver can be applied for for the review fee for an application for review."

So, under the assumption that there are no side fees, from the time of applying for a patent to getting a patent certificate, if applying for a patent for invention, you need to pay 4605 yuan when you don't enjoy the fee remission; after applying for the fee remission in the name of an individual, you need to pay 1205 yuan; after applying for the fee remission in the name of a unit, you need to pay 1850 yuan; and after applying for the fee remission in the name of two and more individuals, you need to pay $1,850.

If you apply for utility models and designs, you need to pay $1305 when you are not entitled to the fee waiver, $575 after applying for the fee waiver in the name of an individual, $740 after applying for the fee waiver in the name of a unit and $740 after applying for the fee waiver in the name of two or more individuals.

Besides the official fees, what has to be said when applying for a patent is the agency fee. The agency fee is used to hire a professional patent agent to provide professional services for the patent application. In China, there are more than 11,000 practicing agents who can provide patent agency services, and more than 1,100 service organizations that can accept applicants' entrustment for patent agency business.

This part of the cost in China still belongs to the non-transparent market, the cost of each service organization is different, and the general charges in different regions are also different, and the cost of the application of different specialties will also be different. In the Beijing market, for example, the cost of an invention patent application is generally between 6,000 and 20,000 yuan, the cost of a utility model is between 4,000 and 15,000 yuan, and the cost of a design is between 1,000 and 3,000 yuan.

If an applicant has the expertise to file a patent application, he or she can choose to file the application on his or her own, which has the advantage of saving on patent agent fees and avoiding the technology from being known to others before the patent application is filed.

However, most companies or individuals do not have such expertise, which requires not only understanding the technology, but also being familiar with the relevant provisions of the Patent Law, and at the same time having the ability to go beyond the limitations of the existing technology to refine a better scope of protection for the technology, which is relatively rare for those who are able to do so at the same time.

If the protection is not appropriate, it may lead to the patent technology is not only no substantive protection, but also the technology will be gratuitously open to the world to know, for competitors and peers to provide a good channel for peeping and learning, the loss is not worth the gain. Therefore, endowed with "professional things to professionals to do" this principle, the author firmly recommended that the patent application of such professional requirements of high things, to the patent agent to deal with.

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