Analysis of fees for patent application:

1. Patent application official fee

No matter what type of patent application, the applicant must pay the official fee. From the day the inventor submits the application, or within half a month after receiving the acceptance notice, all patent application official fees must be paid. Design patents and utility model patents are 500 yuan/piece respectively; invention patents are 900 yuan/piece.

2. Patent priority claim fee

This fee only needs to be paid in accordance with the provisions of the law after the inventor makes this request, and is usually around a few hundred yuan. The amount of this fee is calculated based on the number of earlier applications that serve as the basis for priority.

3. Patent application surcharge

The surcharge can only be paid when the inventor applies for too many materials, such as more than 30 pages, or has more than 10 claims. , you need to pay. The amount of the fee is determined by the number of pages and items. There is no specific amount.

4. Patent substantive review fee

Among the three types of patents, only invention patents need to pay a patent substantive review fee of 2,500 yuan/piece. It needs to be distinguished according to the specific circumstances. For example: if companies and individual applicants apply for exemption, the company's substantive review fee is 750 yuan/piece; the individual substantive review fee is 375 yuan/piece.

5. Annual fees for the year after patent authorization

After each patent is authorized, the corresponding patent maintenance annual fee must be paid in accordance with regulations every year. Among them, the annual fee to be paid for invention patents in the first year is 900 yuan/piece; for design and utility model patents, the annual fee is 600 yuan/piece.

6. Patent printing and publication fees

After each patent is authorized, a patent printing fee of 50 yuan/piece must be paid.

7. Patent agency fees

For inventors who entrust an agency, in addition to paying the above necessary patent fees for patent application, they also need to pay the agent's service fees, the amount The number of patents varies with different agents and types of patents. Generally, invention patents are more expensive than the other two patents.