Design Application Fee

Design application fee includes an official fee to be paid with Patent Office and a service fee to be paid to a legal representative (i.e., patent attorney). If one is going through design application procedures from filing to registration without any help of patent attorney, only official fee is needed to be paid. Whereas, if the prosecutions are conducted with the help of a patent attorney, one needs to pay both of the official fee and attorney service fee.

Official Fee

Official fee for filing design application is 60,000 KRW (Korean Won) with a request for examination and 45,000 KRW without a request for examination. And lump sum of basic registration fee and annuity fees for 1st to 3rd years is 75, 000KRW.

Applicant as an individual or a small-sized entity is exempted from 70% of the official fees. Further, medium-sized entity is exempted from 50% of official fees, and students or handicapped is exempted from 100%.

More details of official fees can be referred in the following website. http://www.patent.go.kr/jsp/ka/menu/fee/main/FeeMain01.jsp

Attorney Service Fee

Application Filing Fee

Application filing fee is charged for preparing and filing application documents.

Fee for Responding to Office Actions

When an examiner found grounds for rejection during examination, Notice of Preliminary Rejection will be dispatched to the Applicant (or the representing patent attorney). The Applicant should respond to the Office Action by preparing and filing Amendment and Argument to overcome the grounds for rejection. Attorney service fee for responding Office Actions is incurred in this stage.

Contingent Fee

Contingent fee is charged when the application is successfully registered, although not charged if decision of rejection is finally made. Usually 100% of a basic filing fee is charged as the contingent fee.