Verbal report

• Time required: within 2 working days

Written report

• Time required: within 3 working days

Each Article

• may apply for Hong Kong standard patent directly without prior applications in other countries
• Time required: About 2 years
• Protection period:  3 years (thereafter can be renewed annually to maximum 20 years)
• The above price included all official and professional fee in the process. However the handling cost for office actions are not included.
• Patent application document is recommended to be drafted by patent attorneys

One Article, per stage (total 2 stages)

• Pre-requisite: Must be filed in China, the United Kingdom or European Patent Office
• Time required: About 3 years (depends on the progress of patent application in one of the three designating patent offices.)
• Protection period:  3 years (thereafter can be renewed annually to maximum 20 years)
• The above price included all official and professional fee in the process
• Patent application document is recommended to be drafted by patent attorneys

Package price (English patent document)

Filing the patent application

One Article

• Time required: About 6 months
• Protection period:  4 years (thereafter can be renewed for another 4 years)
• The above price included all official and professional fee in the process
• Patent application document is recommended to be drafted by patent attorneys. The patent application document is required to be examined by one of the International Searching Authorities

Drafting Patent Application Document (in English)

One Article

• Time required: About 2 weeks

Search Report (CHINA) for applying Short-term Patent

One Article

• Time required: About 2 months

One Article

• Time required: About  12 months
• Effective period:  2.5 years
• The above price included the official fee, international search fee and handling charges for the entering international phase of PCT application. However it does not include the cost for drafting patent application document or translation if required. The cost for drafting patent application document in Chinese is HK$12,000, and in English HK$15,000.
• The applicant enjoy 2.5 years priority period to enter the national phase of PCT application in any member state of the treaty. The PCT application also include an international search report, which reveals the validity of the patent application as compared to other patent registrations in the world.

• PCT applicant’s guide and list of member countries