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Multiple PCT Fees Slashed
Release Time:2009/5/5 10:46:55            【Font-size:Big Middle Small

The National Development and Reform Commission along with the Ministry of Finance enacted a circular recently, approving SIPO's suggestion of reducing and adjusting several PCT fees.  
 
In the international phase of PCT filing, if there are less than 30 pages in the application document, the fee is dropped from 8,555 yuan to 8,127 yuan.  If the applicant, who is a natural person from a country with the national income per capita of less than 3,000 USD, international application fee and formality fee shall be reduced 90% instead of 75%.  In the past, if an application is filed in the paper form with an e-copy, 100 Swiss Francs is slashed from the international application fee.  The provision now changes to, if an application is filed in e-form, the fee may be reduced 100 to 300 Swiss Francs.
 
The provision also provide that the PCT filing received and searched by SIPO will be exempted from application fee and additional application fee (wherein the printing fee shall not be free) when enter into national phase. Besides, it will enjoy 50% exemption for substantive examination fee when a request for substantive examination.
 

 
 
(China IP News)
2009-03-26
 
 
Release Time:2009/5/5 10:46:55[ Print ]