patent year	Office (€)	Attorney (€), excluding VAT
1^st	0	0
2^nd	0	0
3^rd	70	30
4^th	70	30
5^th	100	35
6^th	150	35
7^th	210	35
8^th	280	45
9^th	350	45
10^th	430	45
11^th	540	50
12^th	680	50
13^th	830	50
14^th	980	60
15^th	1130	60
16^th	1310	60
17^th	1490	60
18^th	1670	60
19^th	1840	70
20^th	2030	70
3^rd to 5^th year at the due date of the 3^rd year fee	210	40
Surcharge for late payment	50	50
renewal fees for supplementary protection
21^st	2650	125
22^nd	2940	150
23^rd	3290	180
24^th	3650	210
25^th	4120	250
26^th	4520	290

Due date	Last day of the month in which the date of filing occurred
Time limit for payment without surcharge	Up to the end of the last day of the 2^nd month of due date
Earliest possible payment date	Payment may not be made more than 12 months before due date
Time limit for payment with surcharge	Up to the end of the last day of the 6^th month of due date
Surcharge	50 € office fee + 50 € attorney's fee

It is the policy of our office to renew German patent applications only which we represent and not to advance office fees for new clients.

Representation

We do not charge an additional fee for taking over representation when renewing German patents.

There are two ways of taking over representation:

The preferred way is that you provide a PDF copy of an executed Power of Attorney (PoA) or have our PoA executed by your client. The advantage of this method is that the present representative does not need to cooperate.
Alternatively you may instruct your present representative to terminate his representation. Then we may take over without presenting a PoA.

It is the policy of our office to renew German patents only which we represent and not to advance office fees for new clients.

This page should not be construed as legal advice.
No responsibility is accepted for the correctness of the official fees. The attorney's fees indicated on this page are minimum charges of the law firm Dr.-Ing. Hellmich which may be raised in urgent cases.
This page does not constitute an offer but rather "invitatio ad offerendum" (invitation to make an offer).