The Beijing Patent Attorneys Association has recently published average Beijing-based attorney service fees for filing patent applications in 2021. The fees vary by type of patents. Patent attorneys charge an average of 15,240 yuan for filing applications of mechanical inventions, 16,256 yuan for filing applications of electrical invention patents, 17,272 yuan for filing applications of chemical invention patents, 8,636 yuan for filing utility patents, 3556 yuan for filing design patents.

These fees are charged for the services include filings and draftings of patents and the patent search with their clients’ provision of complete and precise technical information about the patents they apply for. And the fees are valid when the complexity values of patents are low to median in that one response to an office action is required during the process from filing to grant and when the patent attorneys have education, specialties, and at least three years of legal practice in the fields pertaining to the patents the clients apply for.