Provisional patent application
₹5,999 – ₹40,000
A provisional patent application helps to quickly protect your invention. Prices exclude government fees.
Description
The provisional patent application includes only the following activities:
- Drafting of a provisional patent application
- Filing of a provisional patent application with the Indian patent office.
- Informing the client the patent application number and providing a filing acknowledgement.
Please note that the price includes professional fee for 1 provisional patent drafting and filing in India. Government fee is excluded.
The average time to prepare and file a provisional patent application is generally between 3-8 working days and is also dependent on how soon the client is able to provide the details and provide confirmation on the invention as and when requested.
Once, the provisional patent application is filed, a complete patent application needs to be filed within 12 months. If a complete application is not filed within 12 months of the filing of the provisional patent application, the patent application will get abandoned.
Exclusions & exceptions:
- Patent search
- Complete patent filing
- Complex inventions, across technology domains and mainly in Life sciences and pharmaceutical domains are currently not available in the same price. An additional fee of ₹2,000-5,000 may be applicable for the provisional patent due to considerable additional effort. However, the same amount will be adjusted at the time of filing of the complete patent, filed in pursuance of the provisional patent application.
- Government fee is additional. Applicable government fee is 1,600 for up to 30 pages and 10 claims for individual, startup and SME applicants; and 8,000 for up to 30 pages and 10 claims for other applicant types.
- One time stamp fee is additional and is around ₹100.