Patentweb South Africa :: Unconventionally Professional

So what does professional advice, patent drafting and patent filing cost?

The drafting of patent specifications is a specialized field combining the skills and experience of both an engineer and a lawyer. However, patents can be technically quite simple, such as a wheelbarrow or a pencil sharpener, or highly complex, such as new engines and gearboxes, electronic inventions, software and internet inventions, as well as some chemical inventions. In between these two extremes lie very many types of inventions such as mine prop inventions, medical devices, locking mechanisms, alarm systems, and the like.

Thus, in order to simplify your budgeting process, at Patentweb we have three pricing categories:

Complexity	South African Provisional Patent Application	South African Complete Patent Application	PCT International Patent Application*

Technically Simple	R 6500.00	R 8000.00	R 21 500.00
Technically Moderate	R 8000.00	R 9000.00	R 25 000.00
Technically Complex	R 9000.00 or more	R 10 000.00 or more	R 27 000.00

* Filed in the name of a private South African individual and all inventors are South Africans

* Add R 12 000 for non-South Africans, or company or other corporate entity

Other Advice: from R 750 per hour.