{"id":24113,"date":"2023-04-28T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T03:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ryuka.com\/en\/?p=24113"},"modified":"2023-05-01T15:53:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T06:53:58","slug":"deferring-fees-and-extending-pendency-of-patent-applications-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ryuka.com\/en\/news\/ip-news\/patents\/24113\/","title":{"rendered":"Deferring Fees and Extending Pendency of Patent Applications in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-right\">\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.2em\">Aki Ryuka\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/ br><\/p>\n<p>Green-highlighted options cost the same or less per deferred month than filing a divisional application (yellow). We suggest pursuing the green options first and then filing a divisional application to keep a patent application pending longer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ryuka.com\/en\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deferring-Fees-and-Extending-Pendency-of-Patent-Applications-in-Japan.jpg\" alt=\"Deferring Fees and Extending Pendency of Patent Applications in Japan\" width=\"939\" height=\"886\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ryuka.com\/en\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deferring-Fees-and-Extending-Pendency-of-Patent-Applications-in-Japan.jpg 939w, https:\/\/www.ryuka.com\/en\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deferring-Fees-and-Extending-Pendency-of-Patent-Applications-in-Japan-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ryuka.com\/en\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deferring-Fees-and-Extending-Pendency-of-Patent-Applications-in-Japan-150x142.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ryuka.com\/en\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deferring-Fees-and-Extending-Pendency-of-Patent-Applications-in-Japan-768x725.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 939px) 100vw, 939px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><b>Notes:<\/b><\/div>\n<p>1. Fees and deferred months are typical numbers and may vary.<br \/>\n2. The fees do not include those for studying the office actions or inventions, because those fees are incurred anyway regardless of the deferral.<br \/>\n3. The fees for appeal (D,H) and divisional (J) are dependent on the number of claims.<br \/>\n\u3000 We assumed 15 claims for a divisional application, and 13 claims for an appeal.<br \/>\n4. The JPO suspends the examination of the divisional application upon request, if the parent application is pending an appeal.<br \/>\n\u3000 The examination resumes three months of the decision on appeal.<br \/>\n\u3000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpo.go.jp\/system\/patent\/shinsa\/general\/bunkatu-shutugan_chushi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.jpo.go.jp\/system\/patent\/shinsa\/general\/bunkatu-shutugan_chushi.html<\/a><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aki Ryuka Green-highlighted options cost the same or less per deferred month than filing a divisional applicat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patents"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ryuka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ryuka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ryuka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ryuka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ryuka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ryuka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25146,"href":"https:\/\/www.ryuka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24113\/revisions\/25146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ryuka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ryuka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ryuka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}