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May 27, 2008

Official Fees for Patent and Trademark will be revised on or after June 1, 2008

Japanese Government has recently decided to revise the currently implemented Official Fees for Patent and Trademark and the new Official Fees will go into effect on or after June 1, 2008.

According to the new Official Fees System for Patent and Trademark, the currently implemented Official Fees are reduced so as to decrease a financial load of the applicants or owners of Patents and Trademarks to some extent.

We would like to briefly explain about these newly proposed Official Fees for Patent and Trademark, for your reference.

(I) Official Fees for Patent;

Official Filing Fees for Patent Application and Annual Registration will be reduced:

Under the newly proposed amended Patent Law, Official filing fee and Official annual registration fees will be reduced comparing with those of the current Official Fees, as shown hereunder.

Application Fee

	Current Fee	New Fee(draft)
Patent Application	16,000Yen	15,000Yen

Annual Registration Fee (for an application filed after Jan. 1, 1988 and RE. been filed on or after Apr. 1, 2004)

	Current Fee	New Fee( draft)
First to Third year	2,600+N(claims)×200Yen	2,300+ N(claims)×200Yen
Forth to Sixth year	8,100+ N(claims)×600Yen	7,100+ N(claims)×500Yen
Seventh to Ninth year	24,300+ N(claims)×1,900Yen	21,400+ N(claims)×1,700Yen
After Tenth year	81,200Yen+ N(claims)×6,400Yen	61,600+ N(claims)×4,800Yen

*N (claims)=Number of claims

(II) Official Fees for Trademark;

Official Fees for Trademark Application, Registration and Renewal will be reduced;

Under the newly proposed amended Trademark Law, the Official Fees for a Trademark application, Registration of a granted Trademark and Renewal for registered Trademark will be reduced comparing with those of the current Official Fees, as shown hereunder.

Application Fee

	Current Fee	New Fee(draft)
Trademark Application	6,000+ N(class)×15,000Yen	3,400+ N(class)×8,600Yen
Defensive TM Application	12,000+ N(class)×30,000Yen	6,800+ N(class)×17,200Yen

*N (class)=Number of class

Registration Fee

	Current Fee	New Fee(draft)
Registration	N(class)×66,000Yen	N(class)×37,600Yen
Registration（installment）	N(class)×44,000Yen	N(class)×21,900Yen
Defensive TM Application	N(class)×66,000Yen	N(class)×37,600Yen

*N (class)=Number of class

Renewal Fee

	Current Fee	New Fee(draft)
Registration	N(class)×151,000Yen	N(class)×48,500Yen
Registration（installment）	N(class)×101,000Yen	N(class)×28,300Yen
Defensive TM Application	N(class)×130,000Yen	N(class)×41,800Yen

*N (class)=Number of class

Individual Fees based on International Trademark Registration

	Current Fee	New Fee(draft)
Individual Fee	4,800+ N(class)×15,000Yen	2,700+N(class)×8,600Yen
Individual Fee	N(class)×66,000Yen	N(class)×37,600Yen
Renewal Fee	N(class)×151,000Yen	N(class)×48,500Yen

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