patent fees by country
Welcome to the patent costs database. The patent costs database contains patent fees of many countries in the world. A seperate file is underconstruction to add fees applicable when applying for a PCT-patent examination.
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find patent costs
Choose a country from the list.
After you have made your choice a table is created showing the annual maintenance fees of the country selected. Patent costs retrieved are graphically presented for a 20 year time period. All patent costs are in Euro's. Slight differences in patent cost may result from differences in exchange rates applied.
Additional patent costs involved such as for novelty searches, extra claims or examination costs charged by a patent office are not represented in the graph. Only annual patent maintenance fees are. The additional costs of patenting are showed in the second table.
When no patent costs are available the table will show '0'. This does not mean that no fees are applicable but up till now data has not been uploaded to the Patentvista patent costs database.
Many countries charge an extra fee when patent applications contain more than 10 claims. The additional costs for dealing with the extra claims are listed in the second table as 'extra claimcosts'.