According to the report from the workshop on patent financial aid hold by the Intellectual Property Office of Chongqing Municipality, the patent application fees for enterprises with operational difficulties or deficit will decrease 70% at the most, and fees for individual applicants with an annual income lower than 25,000 yuan could decrease 85% at the most.

In recent years, the patent applications in Chongqing are increasing year by year. In 2008, the patent application reached 8000 for the first time, and the number of the patent applications for the first 8 month this year is 58.8% higher than that in the same period last year. As a result, Chongqing launched the "Measures on Patent Financial Aid in Chongqing", which provides that anyone could obtain a certain amount of fund equaled to the actual application fees if he or she is the patent applicant first filed, and entities and individuals who are granted patents can obtain a fund of 1,000 to 2,000 yuan.

"From now on, the patent fund aid by Chongqing government will focus on the patent granting, so to boost the transformation and appliance of patents," said related staffs from Chongqing Intellectual Property Office. Besides, Chongqing will also offer a fund aid, not more than the amount paid by the applicant, for patent application and maintenance to keep away from false or repeated applications with quantity oriented.
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