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Fees for Advisory Opinion

（1）Basic Fee

Unilateral Opinion

・Application Fee
300,000 yen (+tax, hereinafter the same in chapter "4. Center's Advisory Opinion")
The applicant shall pay the application fee at the time of submitting an application for an Advisory Opinion.

・Fee for Oral Hearing
100,000 yen(+tax) / one hearing
The applicant shall pay the fee for an oral hearing, and as a general rule, promptly after the termination of each hearing.

Bilateral Opinion

・Application Fee
400,000 yen(+tax)
The applicant shall pay the application fee at the time an application for an Advisory Opinion is submitted. 30,000 yen(+tax) of this shall be a reception / acceptance confirmation procedure fee. In the case of the respondent's refusal of acceptance, the application fee, after deducting the reception / acceptance confirmation procedure fee, shall be reimbursed to the applicant.

・Cross Invalidation Determination Application Fee
200,000 yen(+tax)
In the case where the respondent makes an application for Cross Invalidation Determination against the applicant in the proceedings of the Scope Determination, it shall pay this application fee at the time of such application for Cross Invalidation Determination.

・Fee for Oral Hearing
100,000 yen(+tax) / one hearing
Both applicant and respondent shall pay the same amount of fee for each oral hearing (100,000 yen(+tax) each / one hearing), and as a general rule, promptly after the termination of each hearing.

（2）Additional Fee (Applicable to both Unilateral Opinion and Bilateral Opinion)

One half of the application fee above (with regard to an application for a Cross Invalidation Determination, the same amount as the application fee thereof) shall be added to the application fee for each additional matter to be considered in an application, or each additional number of Subject Matter or Subject Product, etc. on which an application is made.

Matters to be considered
  1. whether or not a specific product or method falls within the technical scope of the patent invention or registered utility model;
  2. whether or not a specific design falls within the scope of the registered design and similar design thereto;
  3. whether or not a specific mark falls within the scope of the trademark right or effect of the right based on defensive trademark registration; or
  4. 4. whether or not there are grounds for invalidation in the patent or registration with regard to a specific patent, utility mode registration, design registration, or trademark registration (including defensive trademark registration, hereinafter, the same). Provided, this shall be limited to the application for an Advisory Opinion based on the grounds specified by the applicant
Number of Subject Matters
  1. Patent or utility mode registration: Number of patent claims or utility mode registration on which an Advisory Opinion is requested (Even in the case where one claim refers to one or more other claims, it shall be counted as one.)
  2. Registered design: Number of registered designs on which an Advisory Opinion is requested.
  3. Registered trademark: Number of categories of designated goods or designated services of the registered trademark on which an Advisory Opinion is requested.
Number of Subject Products, etc
  1. Number of products, methods, designs, or trademarks specified in a written application for an Advisory Opinion.

Beneficiary Bank Account

Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center
Mitsui Sumitomo Bank Kasumigaseki branch office
Ordinary Deposit Account No. 6559091

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