Client: We are foreign company and now we have some patent and trademark cases to be filed in Cambodia,May you kindly mail new (or recent) Fee Schedule of Patent and Trademark to us?
Your promptly response to this letter is greatly appreciated. If there is any problem, please contact us without hesitate.
Lawyer: Thank you for your later referring to the above matter. As the leading intellectual property firm with worldwide network at 60 countries, it is ensured that we will provide you qualified service with competitive fee.
Accordingly, we do hope a long co-operation between our companies shall be established.
As your requirement, we would like to advise you on procedure and fee for registering trademark, patent and industrial design in Cambodia as hereafter:
I.TRADEMARK RESIGTRATION IN CAMBODIA
1. Time frame of trademark registration in Cambodia:
The trademark application shall be passed through three stages:
a) Formality examination of trademark application: 01 month.
b) Substantive Examination: A substantive examination takes place 6 months from the date of publication.
c) Registration: The duration of registration takes a minimum period of 2 months. The registration is effective from date of application.
2. Required documents :
In order to file trademark in Cambodia, the applicant shall provide S&B LAW the following documents:
(i) Power of Attorney.
(ii) Samples of trademark
(iii) List of products/service bearing trademark.
Note: Cambodia does not accept mutil-class in one trademark application. Each trademark application can only include one class.
3. Fees.
3.1. Fee for conducting search trademark registration for one class.
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No |
Work |
Official charge
($US) |
Agency fee
($US) |
|
1 |
Conducting search trademark registration for one classin Cambodia |
90 |
60 |
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Total |
150 USD |
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In words: One hundred and fifty US dollars only |
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3.2. Fee for filling a trademark for one class.
| Description |
Official charge ($US)
|
Agency fee ($US) |
| New Filing
|
250 |
150 |
| Claim Priority |
40 |
40 |
| Renewal
|
220 |
120 |
| Assignment
|
80 |
60 |
| Merge
|
80 |
60 |
| Change of Name
|
80 |
60 |
| Change of Address
|
80 |
60 |
| Duplicate
|
50 |
40 |
| Cancellation
|
Case by case |
Case by case |
* Note: The above fees are exclusive of: The translation fee: US$ 6/ 100 English words, Appeal fee (if any), actual Communication expenses; Value Added Tax (VAT): 5% of our agency fe
II. FILING A PATENT IN CAMBODIA
1. An invention shall be eligible for protection in the form of the grant of an invention when it satisfies the following conditions:
| It is novel | It is of an inventive nature | It is susceptible of industrial application | |
| Patent |
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2.Time frame of patent registration:
It takes 32 – 34 moths to register patent in Cambodia from filing date of application.
3. Required documents
(i) A description
(ii) One or more claims
(iii) An abstract, and
(iv) One or more drawings (where required).
4. Fee
Fee for filing patent application depends on number of claims in an application.
|
No. |
Description |
Official Fees (USD) |
Professional Fee (USD) |
TOTAL (USD) |
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1 |
Filing Application |
180 |
100 |
280 |
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|
2 |
Over 10 Claims |
10/claim |
10/claim |
20/claim |
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|
3 |
Priority Claim |
40 |
40 |
80 |
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4 |
Filing Foreign Search Result |
20 |
50 |
70 |
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5 |
Evaluation of Search Result |
40 |
40 |
80 |
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6 |
Publication of Search Report |
80 |
50 |
130 |
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7 |
Submitting Result of Foreign Substantive Examination |
80 |
50 |
130 |
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|
8 |
Evaluation of Substantive Examination |
60 |
80 |
140 |
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9 |
Grant of Patent (2 include the payment of annuity fee of 2nd to 4th year) |
330 |
200 |
530 |
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10 |
Post-Grant Publication |
90 |
40 |
130 |
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11 |
Filing Patent Certification |
60 |
40 |
100 |
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12 |
Request for substantive examination (in case no priority is claimed) |
230 |
80 |
310 |
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13 |
Translation |
10USD/100 words |
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14 |
Fax charge |
10/sheet |
10/sheet |
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15 |
Fee for assignment of the application/Registration |
110 |
90 |
200 |
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16 |
Fee for amendment of the application/Registration |
60 |
30 |
90 |
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17 |
Fee for Filing a response to the office action | Depending on the complication of each case | |||||
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18 |
Fee for Opposition to application | Depending on the complication of each case | |||||
Note: The above fees are exclusive of: Appeal fee (if any), actual Communication expenses; Value Added Tax (VAT) : 5% of our agency fee, bank charge
The above is our Fee Schedule of Trademark and Patent in Cambodia.
We trust that you will find our services of interest to your firm and shall look forward to hearing from you with a view to establishing a mutually beneficial relationship
Should you have any inquiry, please do not hesitate to contact us.
We look forward to co-operating with you soon.
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