Cost of Getting a Patent in India & US

After conceiving your idea, you need to protect it by securing a patent as soon as possible. But before going for the patent, you need to estimate how much it would cost to get a patent and maintain it by paying periodic maintenance fee. Now there are two types of costs involved in getting a patent, namely professional fee and other is official fee. Professional fee is the fee charged by a patent consulting firm/agent/attorney to prepare, file and prosecute the patent application with the patent office. The professional fee may vary from one firm to other. More experienced and expert firms charge extra because they protect your idea in a broadest possible manner and pursue the application professionally. The official fee is the fee charged by the patent office to pursue your patent application. Here we are presenting only the official fee for obtaining a patent.

Indian and US patent official fee is determined by who the applicant is.

Indian patent office identifies the applicant either as a natural person or as a legal entity like companies. The official fee for legal entity is four times the fee for the natural person. In the following table, we have presented official fee of patent filling for an individual inventor in India:

S.No.	Fee Description	Indian patent office Fee (in INR)
1	Basic patent application filling	1000
2	Extra Page in addition of 30 page	100/page
3	Extra Claim in addition of 10 claim	200/claim
4	Early Publication Fee	2500
5	Request for Examination	2500

Table 1: Indian Patent Office Fee

The US patent office categorizes the applicant in two categories of small entity and big entity. The small entity can be an individual inventor, a company with employees less than 500 or a nonprofit organization. The official fee for big entity is twice the corresponding official fee of the small entity.

In the following table, we have presented official fee of patent filling for small entity in US:

S.No.	Fee Description	US patent office Fee (in USD)
1	Basic patent application filling	165
2	Each additional 50 page after first 100 page	135
3	Independent Claim in excess of 3	110/claim
4	Claim in excess of 20	26/claim
5	Patent Search Fee	270
6	Patent Examination Fee	110
7	Patent Issue Fee	755

Table 2: US Patent Office Fee

Apart from depositing the official fee for getting the patent, one has to deposit patent maintenance fee from time to time to keep patent active during its term.

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