{"id":14476,"date":"2025-12-03T01:48:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/?p=14476"},"modified":"2025-12-04T16:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:42:21","slug":"japan-international-application-fees-revised-january-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/2025\/12\/03\/japan-international-application-fees-revised-january-1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan: International Application Fees Revised: January 1, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">December 3, 2025<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n<hr style=\"background: #1d6a96; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; height: 7px;\" \/>\r\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;\">January<\/span> 1, 2026<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<hr style=\"background: #1d6a96; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; height: 7px;\" \/>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\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>\r\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 \/>\r\nFor international applications filed with the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the international filing and handling fees will be revised as follows effective January 1, 2026.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/image2023\/BLG\/JP\/20251202-hyou-01-en-.png\" width=\"1000\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\r\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 \/>\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Reference<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\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: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0 \u00a0Example of calculation for an international application when JPO is the receiving Office, international search organization, and international preliminary examination organization<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/image2023\/BLG\/JP\/20251202-hyou-02-en-.png\" width=\"1000\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\r\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>\r\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>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\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 \/>\r\nFor 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>\r\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 Jan 2026<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n<hr style=\"background: #1d6a96; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; height: 5px;\" \/>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 3, 2025 Japan: International Application Fees Revised: January 1, 2026 \u00a0 For international applications filed with the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the international filing and handling fees will be revised as follows effective January 1, 2026. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Reference \u00a0 \u00a0Example of calculation for an international application when JPO is the receiving Office,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14476"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14497,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14476\/revisions\/14497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}