TURKPATENT has made substantive discounts on search and examination reports
Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) has significantly discounted the official fees for search and examination reports in order to reduce patent and utility model registration costs.
The discounted fees will be limited to a certain number of requests for search and examination as follows:
- 10 requests for real persons,
- 25 requests for legal entities,
- 100 requests for universities.
The discounted fee will be 100 Turkish Lira (20 USD).
Thus, for example, if the applicant is a real person, he/she will be able to benefit from discounted fees up to 20 requests, including 10 for the search reports for patent or utility model applications and 10 for the substantive examination reports for patent or utility model applications.
When the number of requests determined according to the type of applicant is exceeded, the normal fees (if the request is filed through the e-government system) will be applied (590 TL (112 USD) for the search report and 355 TL (67 USD) for the examination report).
In the new schedule of official fees set by TURKPATENT for 2019, it has been noted that the official fees for the European patent validations and PCT national phase entries in Turkey have been substantively increased.