Reasonable Application and Maintenance Fees
Frequently Asked Questions:
- You’d better enter South Africa by PCT national phase within 31 months from the priority date. If the deadline is missed with any justified reason, you may file a restoration request within 3 months to the CIPC with a statement indicating that the delay in entry was unintentional and pay an extra fee.
- English version of abstract, claims, specification, drawings (when explanatory text is included).
- Patent in South Africa requires no substantive examination.
- It is easy to get it granted in South Africa and it will take around 1 year after application. Since patent in South Africa requires no substantive examination, you can get satisfied results of your patent application.