{"id":90645,"date":"2018-04-03T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8fd08a8d82dbef1bb92bd2e6151198f0"},"modified":"2018-04-03T09:00:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T09:00:37","slug":"news-story-patent-fee-changes-on-6-april-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=90645","title":{"rendered":"News story: Patent fee changes on 6 April 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Patent fees are changing on 6 April 2018.<\/p>\n<p>This follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/proposed-changes-to-statutory-patents-fees\">consultations on the statutory patent fees changes<\/a> in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>There are new fees for patent applications and patents, and new fees for lengthy applications.<\/p>\n<p>The changes will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>help us maintain high quality, efficient services for our customers<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>ensure that the <abbr title=\"Intellectual Property Office\">IPO<\/abbr> maintains a competitive fee structure<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>improve cost recovery for the services we provide<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>continue to meet the bulk of <abbr title=\"Intellectual Property Office\">IPO<\/abbr> patent granting costs through renewal fees<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/new-patents-fees-coming-into-force-on-6-april-2018\">Guidance for business<\/a> setting out the detail and how the new fees work in practice is available.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to UK patents fees are coming into force this Friday, 6 April 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}