Circular: Fee Updates

The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (“IPOS”) reviews its processes and fees periodically to ensure they meet the changing needs of the intellectual property (“IP”) ecosystem, promote innovation, encourage accurate submissions as well as enable IPOS to operate sustainably.

The last fee update was in May 2022. In this review, most fees will be maintained. In general, the majority of the fee updates will take effect on 1 September 2025, and the other fee updates will take effect on 1 April 2026. 

Key updates:

• Increase in trade marks application fee, Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) search and preliminary examination fees in light of prevailing operational conditions; 

• Increase in trade marks and patents renewal fees to encourage the release of non-performing IP; 

• Increase in patents excess claim fee and lower threshold to encourage submission of concise claim sets; 

• Shift in patents excess claim fee payment from grant stage to response to written opinion stage; 

• Increase in certain amendment fees to encourage quality filings; 

• Increase in certain extension of time fees to discourage unnecessary prolonging of IP prosecution process; and 

• Decrease in application fee for grant of plant varieties protection. 

Details of the fee updates are listed in Annex A [PDF, 289 KB].

Please contact us at ipos_enquiry@ipos.gov.sg for any clarification.