A foreign subject without habitual residence or place of business in China cannot file itself, and cannot use China as a PCT receiving Office. There are only two routes in — the Paris Convention route and the PCT national phase — and both end with a Chinese patent agency. A practical guide with operative deadlines, official fees and the fee-reduction reality.
Taking China’s rules as the baseline, this guide compares patent annuity regimes in China, the United States, the EPO, Japan, Korea and Germany through five variables: base date, starting point, payment rhythm, grace period and late-payment cost, and lapse and restoration.
A practical guide for foreign applicants to verify a Chinese patent agency’s practising licence and a patent attorney’s practice filing through the CNIPA public register — how to read the Chinese interface, how to tell a licensed agency from a sub-contracting intermediary, and what to ask before signing.
A practical, stage-by-stage guide for foreign applicants filing patents in China: the mandatory local agent, the three entry routes, the deadlines that matter, official fees, and what changed in 2024.
Patent annuities in China are prepaid annually — miss one and the right can be lost for good. Deadlines, official fees, surcharges and the 6-month / 2-month remediation windows, plus a free annuity monitoring service.
A structured overview of CNIPA official fees for foreign applicants: application and substantive examination fees, annuities for invention, utility model and design patents, PCT savings, Hague designation fees and the fee reduction scheme. All figures in CNY, based on the CNIPA schedule updated in August 2024.
Zhihai Yida Without a fee reduction in place, filing a patent can represent a considerable cost for small enterprises and
Batch renaming refers to processing name-change formalities for qualifying cases by importing a list of application numbers/patent numbers for which
