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First time visitor? See below for Introduction or click for Help |
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Choose your patent type and click "Add" |
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Patent Family Overview |
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What it's for: This tool helps you forecast the costs associated with a patent family. It is NOT an accurate tool, and is only suitable for obtaining ball-park figures. How to use it: Enter your planned patent filings using the form. (Include 'national phase' filings) |
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N.B. Using Firefox browser the values may come up with question marks. These should be British pound signs, and this can be corrected by editing the currency field. Introduction. This is a tool which makes rough projections of your patenting costs based on your input of which territories you might want protection in. Try clicking "Add" - the projected, itemised and cumulative costs of drafting, pursuing and maintaining your patent application are displayed. With 12 months of your start date you might want other protection or procedures such as a PCT or "international" patent application. Make and add your selection and this tool will generate revised forecasts. Notes on the Fee Estimator: Firstly don't forget that this tool is not accurate, and it omits consideration of a raft of issues. It is intended only to be useful to obtain ball-park figures for helping a user gain an impression of the patenting industry. Keep the renewals hidden to avoid slow tool operation. Settings help. Remember that obtaining worldwide patent protection is rarely recommended, even for multinational corporations. Patenting strategy is always based on a cost benefit decision as to whether the extra territories are worth the extra expense. The projected costs extend to 20 years from filing which is the typical length of patents. Pharmaceutical and Agricultural compositions may often be eligible for an extension of protection for a few years to compensate for delays in regulatory approval. Details vary greatly by territory. Patents are sometimes not maintained for the full 20 years because in most countries the renewal fees scale upwards with the passing years. The reason for this is that it is generally considered that if patent protection is not sufficiently desirable to the applicant, then he should be increasingly encouraged to permit everyone else to use the invention. See the notes on the country planner regarding which territories you might want protection in. |
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