INPIT’s third-round foreign application subsidy is designed to ease part of the cost of securing intellectual-property rights overseas. The public listing says the program will subsidize a portion of the expense involved in obtaining rights abroad for inventions, utility models, designs and trademarks, and frames that as support for building an international IP strategy.
| Feature | Detail |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Partial support for costs required to obtain intellectual-property rights abroad and to help build an international IP strategy |
| IP covered | Patents, utility models, designs and trademarks |
| Applicants named | SMEs and research institutions etc. |
| Help desk | INPIT Foreign Patent Application Subsidy Office, 10:00-17:00 weekdays excluding weekends, holidays and Dec. 29-Jan. 3; 03-3502-5424; [email protected] |
The target applicants named in the excerpt are SMEs and research institutions. That makes this broader than a patent-only scheme: design and trademark protection are explicitly in scope alongside patents and utility models.
The practical catch is that the public excerpt stays at a high level. It says part of the relevant costs will be covered, but it does not state the subsidy rate, any maximum award, the application deadline or a detailed breakdown of eligible expenses, instead telling applicants to check the official application guidelines. For questions, the program office lists weekday hours of 10:00 to 17:00, excluding weekends, holidays and the year-end/New Year break, plus the phone number 03-3502-5424 and email [email protected].