Important Update on Patent Maintenance Fees
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has recently addressed a significant error. This error concerns the second, third and fourth year maintenance fees paid by small entity patent holders. Initially, the fees listed for the second to fourth anniversaries for small entities were listed as $50 and were not in accordance with inflation and the recent fee increase for January 2024. The current small entity fee is now $56.21. This discrepancy was due to an oversight on behalf of CIPO. Prompt...