The fees involved in applying for an American invention patent can be roughly divided into four parts: official fees, foreign agency fees, Chinese agency fees and tax fees, among which the official fees charged by the US Patent and Trademark Office and the agency fees charged by foreign lawyers account for more than 7% of the total fees. Next, how much is the patent application fee in the United States?

The patent application fee in the United States consists of official fee and agency service fee. Let me talk about the official fee first. If we don't consider all kinds of complicated situations and only consider the most basic official fee from submission to authorization, then the official fee for invention patent is about 27 US dollars, the official fee for appearance application is about 16 US dollars, and the official fee for plant application is about 2 US dollars. Other expenses may be incurred in the general application process, such as supplementing or modifying relevant documents, extending the reply period of review opinions during the review stage, and submitting the request for continuing review (RCE), etc. See USPTO official website for details of these fees.

Let's talk about the service fees in the United States patent application fees. There are differences among agencies. Generally, the fees for patent agents in the United States range from $2 to $7 per hour, or they are charged at the package price. Simply put, the service fee for submitting an application in the United States can be divided into three parts, one is the cost of writing, the other is the cost of reviewing the reply, and the third is the cost of submitting related process services. The service fee for writing is about $5,-$15,, and it is about $1,-$3, for responding to a review opinion. The specific service fee still depends on the difficulty of the patent and the customer's standards. The process service fee from submission to authorization is about $1,5-$2,5 (including the cost of information disclosure).

there is a compulsory obligation in the U.S. patent application to disclose information, that is, the applicant/agent should disclose all known documents related to the patent application to USPTO. This obligation runs through the application and ends when the patent is granted or abandoned. The number of IDS to be disclosed in each application is related to the number of applications of the same family. The service fee for IDS disclosure is usually 4 -1,5 dollars.

Generally speaking, an ordinary American patent application costs more than 1, to 2, US dollars, equivalent to 1,+RMB. Compared with the domestic average cost of 12,-25, yuan per piece, this cost is quite high. Moreover, until the authorization, the service fee accounts for a large proportion of the total expenses that the applicant needs to spend. However, it is worthwhile to apply successfully and get reasonable protection. Assuming that excessive pursuit of low-cost investment will lead to serious consequences such as low quality of patent application or even rejection of patent, we should pay attention to a reasonable balance between quality and cost.

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