Our service fees:
Translation of patent specifications or other relevant documents between Chinese and English
0.12 USD/word in the source language
Filing an application (or entering the Chinese national stage of a PCT application) with the Chinese patent office
400 USD
Reporting and drafting a response to an office action (or reporting a rejection decision and drafting and filing a reexamination request) in connection with an invention patent application
150 USD/hour (generally 5-6 hours or less for the first OA relating to substantive problems, less for subsequent OAs, and 1-2 hours for OAs relating only to formality problems)
Reporting and submitting various notifications, requests and responses between the patent office and the client, excluding simply forwarding a notification to the client without need to submit a response.
50 USD/transaction
Reporting grant of a patent and forwarding the granted letters patent
100 USD
Monitoring the status of a granted patent and paying annuities
100 USD/year
Drafting a patent specification in English
2500 USD (<3000 words)
3500 USD (3000-5000 words)
5000 USD (5000-8000 words)
6500 USD (8000-12000 words)
Drawing based on a draft
50 USD/figure
The official fees charged by China Patent Office:
Filing
900 RMB;
Publication
50 RMB;
Addition fee for specification in excess of 30 pages, per page?
50 RMB;
Additional fee for claims in excess of 10, per claim
150 RMB;
Each priority claim
80 RMB;
Request for substantive examination
2500 RMB;
Request for reexamination
1000 RMB
Annuities
900 (1st -3rd year)-8000 (16th -20th year)