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At present 74 individual countries are available for searching patent costs and one group of countries covering 16 memberstates and EPO.

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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.

Please help to make the data as accurate as possible by reporting errors or omissions to the webmaster.

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Choose a country from the list.
Hold the CRTL-key for multiple choice.

After you have made your choice a table is created showing the annual maintenance fees of the countries 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'.






disclaimer


All data regarding the costs of patenting are carefully retrieved from numerous official sources. It is possible though that data differ from actual values as a result of recent changes to fees, typing errors or the like. For this reason it is suggested to always check the costs involved when entering the process of patenting.

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