The fee that ISA/SG charges per invention to carry out a PCT search will increase on November 1, 2017. The fee charged in US dollars will increase from $1552 to $1645.
This will leave unchanged the ranking by cost for the searching authorities available to those who file in the US receiving office:
- ISA/US – $2080 (large entity)
- ISA/EP – $1992
- ISA/AU – $1688
- ISA/SG – $1552 (changing to $1645)
- ISA/JP – $1372
- ISA/KR – $1114
- ISA/US – $1040 (small entity)
- ISA/IL – $963
- ISA/US – $520 (micro entity)
- ISA/RU – $482
Both before and after the November 1 fee change, the ranking by cost of ISA/SG will fall between that of ISA/AU and ISA/JP.
Carl,
Do you have any current data on how well these ISA’s comply these days with their 3 month deadline?
In my limited recent experience, KR & IL are spot on. I’m nearing the deadline on a US report, so can’t yet say about that. Haven’t used the others.
Guy Manning
Fort Worth.