Schedule of fees
(on or after April 1, 2009)

1. Application

(1)	Patents
	Patent application	￥15,000
	Application in foreign language	￥24,000
	Entry into the national phase in Japan (under the PCT)
	-for international applications filed on or after June 1, 2008	￥15,000
	Application for registration of an extension of the term of patent right	￥74,000
(2)	Utility Models
	(Note: Applicants are required to pay registration fees for the 1st-3rd years in a lump sum at the time of filing)
	Utility Model application	￥14,000
	Entry into the national phase in Japan (under the PCT)	￥14,000
(3)	Designs
	Design application	￥16,000
	Request for secret design	￥5,100
(4)	Trademarks
	Trademark application	￥3,400 + ￥ 8,600 per classification
	Defensive mark application	￥6,800 + ￥17,200 per classification

2. Request for Examination

(1)	Patents
	1) For patent applications filed on or after April 1, 2004
	Request for examination	￥168,600 +￥4,000 per claim
	-where the international search report has been
	established by the JPO (under the PCT)	￥101,200 +￥2,400 per claim
	-where the international search report has
	been established by an International Searching
	Authority other than the JPO (under the PCT)	￥151,700 +￥3,600 per claim
	-where the search report has been established by
	a designated searching organization	￥134,900 +￥3,200 per claim
	2) For patent applications filed by March 31, 2004 from January 1, 1988
	Request for examination	￥84,300 +￥2,000 per claim
	-where the international search report has been
	established by the JPO (under the PCT)	￥16,900 +￥400 per claim
	-where the international search report has
	been established by an International Searching
	Authority other than the JPO (under the PCT)	￥67,400 +￥1,600 per claim
	-where the search report has been established by
	a designated searching organization	￥50,600 + ￥1,200 per claim
(2)	Utility Models
	1) For utility model applications filed by December 31, 1993 from January 1, 1988
	Request for examination	￥46,500 + ￥1,100 per claim
	2) For Utility Model applications filed on or after January 1, 1994
	Request for Registrability Report	￥42,000 + ￥1,000 per claim
	-where the international search report has
	been established by the JPO (under the PCT)	￥8,400 + ￥200 per claim
	-where the international search report has
	been established by an International Searching
	Authority other than the JPO (under the PCT)	￥33,600 + ￥800 per claim

3. Annual fee / Registration fee

(1)	Patents
	1) For patent applications filed on or after January 1, 1988
	(For patent applications requested for examination on or after April 1, 2004)
	1-3rd year: annually,	￥ 2,300 + ￥ 200 per claim
	4-6th year: annually,	￥ 7,100 + ￥ 500 per claim
	7-9th year: annually,	￥21,400 + ￥1,700 per claim
	10-25th year: annually,	￥61,600 + ￥4,800 per claim
	(For patent applications requested for examination on or before March 31, 2004)
	1-3rd year: annually,	￥11,400 + ￥1,000 per claim
	4-6th year: annually,	￥17,900 + ￥1,400 per claim
	7-9th year: annually,	￥35,800 + ￥2,800 per claim
	10-25th year: annually,	￥71,600 + ￥5,600 per claim
	2) For patent applications filed on or before December 31, 1987
	(For patent applications requested for examination on or after April 1, 2004)
	1-3rd year: annually,	￥ 1,500 + ￥ 1,000 per claim
	4-6th year: annually,	￥ 4,800 + ￥ 2,900 per claim
	7-9th year: annually,	￥14,300 + ￥ 8,800 per claim
	10-25th year: annually,	￥47,500 + ￥29,600 per claim
	(For patent applications requested for examination on or before March 31, 2004)
	1-3rd year: annually,	￥ 7,500 + ￥ 4,900 per claim
	4-6th year: annually,	￥11,900 + ￥ 7,400 per claim
	7-9th year: annually,	￥23,800 + ￥14,800 per claim
	10-25th year: annually,	￥47,500 + ￥29,600 per claim
(2)	Utility Models
	1) For utility model applications filed on or after April 1, 2005
	1-3rd year: annually,	￥ 2,100 + ￥100 per claim
	4-6th year: annually,	￥ 6,100 + ￥300 per claim
	7-10th year: annually,	￥18,100 + ￥900 per claim
	2) For utility model applications filed by March 31, 2005 from January 1, 1994
	1-3rd year: annually,	￥ 7,600 + ￥ 700 per claim
	4-6th year: annually,	￥15,100 + ￥1,400 per claim
(3)	Designs
	1) For Designs applications filed on or after April 1, 2007
	1-3rd year: annually,	￥ 8,500
	4-10th year: annually,	￥16,900
	11-15th year: annually,	￥33,800
	16-20th year: annually,	￥33,800
	Similar design registration: annually,	￥ 8,500
	2) For Designs applications filed by March 31, 2007
	1-3rd year: annually,	￥ 8,500
	4-10th year: annually,	￥16,900
	11-15th year: annually,	￥33,800
	Similar design registration: annually,	￥ 8,500
(4)	Trademarks
	Registration fee (including defensive marks) :	￥37,600 per classification
	-Payment of registration fee by installments	￥21,900 per classification
	Renewal fee:	￥48,500 per classification
	-Payment of renewal fee by installments	￥28,300 per classification
	Defensive mark renewal fee:	￥41,800 per classification

4. Others

	Request for extension of a period	￥2,100
	Notification of succession (Change in the name of applicant)	￥4,200
	Request for other certificates:
	-on-line	￥1,100
	-over the counter
	if confirmation of interests is unnecessary	￥1,400
	if confirmation of interests is necessary	￥1,550
	Request for inspection of documents (paper)
	if confirmation of interests is unnecessary	￥1,500
	if confirmation of interests is necessary	￥1,750
	Request for inspection of documents (digital):
	-on-line	￥600
	-over the counter	￥900
	Request for inspection of the Register (paper)
	if confirmation of interests is unnecessary	￥300
	if confirmation of interests is necessary	￥600
	Request for inspection of the Register (digital)
	-on-line	￥600
	-over the counter
	if confirmation of interests is unnecessary	￥800
	if confirmation of interests is necessary	￥1,100
	Request for copy of documents (paper)
	if confirmation of interests is unnecessary	￥1,400
	if confirmation of interests is necessary	￥1,650
	Request for issue of documents (digital):
	-on-line	￥1,000
	-over the counter
	if confirmation of interests is unnecessary	￥1,300
	if confirmation of interests is necessary	￥1,550
	Request for copy of the Register (paper)
	if confirmation of interests is unnecessary	￥350
	if confirmation of interests is necessary	￥620
	Request for issue of the Register (digital):
	-on-line	￥800
	-over the counter
	if confirmation of interests is unnecessary	￥1,100
	if confirmation of interests is necessary	￥1,400
	Fee for rewriting data into electronic format	￥1,200 + ￥700 per sheet

5. After Registration

	Registration of transfer of right:
	-Patents	￥15,000
	-Utility models	￥ 9,000
	-Designs	￥ 9,000
	-Trademarks	￥30,000
	-General successions (inheritance, etc)	￥ 3,000
	Change in the name of owner (excluding transfer)	￥ 1,000

Note: An applicant who has neither an address nor residence (office, if the applicant is a legal entity) in Japan is required to pay almost all of fees through an agent who has an address or a residence (office, if the applicant is a legal entity) in Japan.

[Last updated 1 April 2009]