What are the ways to reduce patent application fees
Patent application fee reduction is directed toApply to the State Intellectual Property Office.
Reduction of patent application feesConditions for fee reduction:
Patent applicants and patentees who can apply for reduced patent fees must have an average monthly income of less than 5,000 yuan in the previous year (annual 60,000 yuan), and enterprises whose taxable income in the previous year was less than 1 million yuan.
Legal basis:
According to the "Announcement of the State Intellectual Property Office on Adjusting the Conditions for Patent Fee Reductions and Trademark Registration Fee Standards" (No. 316)》Article 3 of the "Notice of the National Development and Reform Commission of the Ministry of Finance on Issuing the "Measures for Reducing Patent Fees" (Caishui [2016] No. 78) stipulates that you can apply for a reduction in patent fees The requirements for patent applicants and patentees are adjusted from those whose average monthly income was less than 3,500 yuan in the previous year (42,000 yuan per year) to those whose average monthly income in the previous year was less than 5,000 yuan (60,000 yuan per year); Enterprises with a taxable income of less than 300,000 yuan in the previous year will be adjusted to enterprises with a taxable income of less than 1 million yuan in the previous year.
"Ministry of Finance and National Development and Reform Commission's Notice on Issuing〈 Notice on the Measures for Reducing Patent Fees" (Finance and Taxation [2016] No. 78)
Article 3 If a patent applicant or patentee meets one of the following conditions, he or she may request a reduction in the above fees from the State Intellectual Property Office:
(1) Individuals whose monthly income in the previous year was less than 3,500 yuan (annual 42,000 yuan);
(2) The taxable income of the enterprise in the previous year was less than 300,000 Yuan's enterprise;
(3) Public institutions, social groups, and non-profit scientific research institutions.
If two or more individuals or units are joint patent applicants or joint patent holders, they shall comply with the provisions of the preceding paragraph respectively.
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