It sounds like a very simple thing, but many companies choose to entrust agencies to help pay, because the payment of patent annual fees also pays attention to the principle of consistent fees and time, which can reduce payment errors. If the patent annual fee is overdue, late payment fees will be incurred, and the amount may even be higher than the annual fee for that year.
Many companies entrust agencies to handle their patents. The annual "Annual Fee Notification" agency will also do regular after-sales service monitoring and feedback to the company. Of course, the agency's feedback fee is definitely higher than the annual fee of the patent itself, because It includes their annual agency fee. So how can we help the company save this agency fee when the company can manage it by itself? How can I pay on time to avoid late payment fees?
The following method is provided when you know the patent annual fee. If you are not sure about the patent annual fee amount, please go to the National Patent Office website to check, or you can consult your own agency.
1. Open the "Patent Payment Information Online Supplement and Management System" website and select a supplement method. Here we have a common method of filling in bank supplement payment information.
The "Online Supplementary Patent Payment Information" page pops up, as shown below: All items marked * are required:
Please pay attention to the information in the red box:
1. It is best to keep the remittance date consistent with the date of payment. You need to communicate with the finance department here. Try to keep the remittance date, the time of remittance and the date of online supplementary submission of payment information as consistent as possible. This way it can be said that there will be no problem.
2 The remittance amount must be consistent with the total payment amount and the financial payment amount in the expense information;
3. Payment unit: Patent Office of the State Intellectual Property Office (you can also choose the nearest office here). For the payment information here, you need to check the official website or consult the agency. Make sure not to make mistakes to avoid delaying the payment progress.
4 Patent type selection: National application/integrated circuit (here refers to invention patents and utility model patents can choose this type)
5. Fill in the information of the patent that requires payment, including the application number, receipt header, unified social credit code, type of fee (for example: third-year annual fee for utility model patent) and payment amount. Leave it blank for the invalid requester.
After completing other information, click "Submit". Do you think it's over here? No, I just supplemented the information and the real payment has just begun.
2. Patent fee payment
This step requires the enterprise's intellectual property management personnel to communicate with the finance department, inform the finance department of the correct information about the payee, and inform the payment amount and payment time. What we choose here is bank remittance, so it should be noted that when remitting the money, you must note the patent number, the annual fee for the year paid, and the amount. If the financial feedback cannot be written in so many words, the patent number must be written.
3. What should I do if my patent payment is overdue?
Try to make patent payment one week in advance, not on the due date. If it is overdue, your patent status will become as shown below: Wait for late payment fees for annual fees.
he enterprise will also receive a payment notice from the State Intellectual Property Office, telling you how much the overdue late payment fee is and when it must be paid at the latest, otherwise the late payment fee will keep rising. As shown in the following example
After reading the above steps for patent payment, do you think it is more reasonable for the agency to charge agency fees on a per-unit basis? It is not as easy as imagined. Of course, if the company has a dedicated intellectual property manager, it can study the payment on its own. If no one can For management, it is still a wiser choice to entrust an agency to handle it, which saves much trouble.