{"id":14651,"date":"2026-04-03T13:35:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/?p=14651"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:16:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:16:46","slug":"japan-international-application-fees-revised-may-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en\/2026\/04\/03\/japan-international-application-fees-revised-may-1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan: International Application Fees Revised: May 1, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">April 3, 2026<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #1d6a96; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; height: 7px;\" \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Japan: International Application Fees Revised: <span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;\">May<\/span> 1, 2026<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<hr style=\"background: #1d6a96; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; height: 7px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 5%; padding-right: 5%; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-9661\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/image2023\/NATIONFLAG\/japan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"94\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 5%; padding-right: 5%; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><br \/>For international applications filed with the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the international filing and handling fees will be revised as follows effective May 1, 2026.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/image2023\/BLG\/JP\/20260403-hyou-01-en-.png\" width=\"1000\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 2%; padding-right: 5%; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Reference<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/image2023\/BLG\/JP\/20260403-hyou-02-en-.png\" width=\"1000\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 6%; text-indent: -1em; padding-right: 5%; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">*\u00b9 Filing fee: Sending fee (17,000 yen) + search fee (143,000 yen) + international filing fee (a) + fee for pages exceeding 30 (number of pages exceeding 30 x (b)) Reduction in case of filing an online application (c) <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 6%; text-indent: -1em; padding-right: 5%; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">*\u00b2 Fees for requesting international preliminary examination: Preliminary examination fee (34,000 yen) + handling fee (D) + additional fee for preliminary examination (preliminary examination fee (28,000 yen) x (number of inventions &#8211; 1))<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 3%; padding-right: 5%; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: #333333;\">JPO website: <br \/>For more information, please check Notice of Revision of Fees for International Applications | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpo.go.jp\/e\/system\/patent\/pct\/chosa-shinsa\/pct-kokuryo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schedule of PCT Fees at the JPO | Japan Patent Office<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 3%; padding-right: 5%; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">For more information, please check WIPO website, <a href=\"https:\/\/pctlegal.wipo.int\/eGuide\/view-doc.xhtml;jsessionid=AD1D52C25AEB13E18590420C36A890D9?doc-code=JP&amp;doc-lang=EN&amp;objectId=691ddb467ae91f086e9c84d1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PCT Applicant&#8217;s Guide Japan &#8211; Valid as from 1 May 2026<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br \/><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #1d6a96; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; height: 5px;\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 3, 2026 Japan: International Application Fees Revised: May 1, 2026 \u00a0 For international applications file&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en\/2026\/04\/03\/japan-international-application-fees-revised-may-1-2026\/\">\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,14,16,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41215,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14651\/revisions\/41215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}